GUWAHATI: A major stride in the fight against the drug menace, the Assam Special Task Force disposed of 37,000 contraband bottles of Phensedyl cough syrup, a controlled NDPS substance.
This was disposed of at M/s Fresh Air Waste Management Services Pvt. Ltd., Panikhaiti, Guwahati. The spent bottles contained 100 ml each of the substance, totaling 3,700 liters. It would have been valued in the market at around Rs 70 lakh.
The disposal was done at M/s Fresh Air Waste Management Services Pvt. Ltd., Panikhaiti, Guwahati, in the presence of the Drugs Disposal Committee. The committee, headed by Shri Sudhakar Singh, APS, SP (Zone-I), CID, Assam, had members from the District Magistrate's office, the Joint Director of Health, and the Narcotics Control Bureau. The registered MR No. 74/2023 was under the seized substances.
Since March 2023, STF, Assam under the leadership of IGP Shri Partha Sarathi Mahanta, IPS has been operating day in and day out with vigorous operations against drug trafficking networks throughout the state.
During this time, the team conducted 164 operations and arrested 325 NDPS offenders along with recovering huge quantities of heroin, opium, ganja, cough syrups, and contraband tablets and capsules.
These drugs have an estimated worth of Rs 800 crore on the market, marking one of the largest crackdowns by the STF so far in the illegal trading of narcotics. Secondly, it is the disposal by STF under its ongoing drives so far.
The first destruction was carried out on March 16, 2024. It included drugs seized against ten registered cases as part of the case investigation. Plans for a third round of disposal are already in motion, with court orders obtained for the destruction of 3.06 kilograms of heroin, 37.26 kilograms of opium, 3,873 kilograms of ganja, and 80,400 contraband capsules and tablets.
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