Assam Police Destroy 935 kgs Of Seized Drugs Worth Rs 100 Crore

Guwahati: As a part of drug disposal programme, Assam Police on Saturday burnt down 935 kg of drugs worth Rs 100 crore seized at Hatishila Daampara under Pragjyotishpur police station.

As per the police, the drugs destroyed included, heroin, cannabis and raw methamphetamine.

As many as 19 lakh meth tablets and around 3.70 lakh bottles of cough syrup were disposed off by burning and destroyed which were collected through various raids and seizures in the recent past.

Harmeet Singh, Special DGP and Commissioner of Police, Guwahati along with Partha Sarathi Mahanta, Joint Commissioner of Police, Guwahati, lit the pyre of drugs.

Besides this, a plantation drive was also conducted on the occasion in the presence of Commissioner of Police, JCP and other senior officials of the city police as part of the Chief Minister's Institutional Plantation Programme.

"The Chief Minister of Assam has given clear instruction to wage this war on drugs until it's completely cleaned up. I want to take this opportunity to reaffirm our absolute commitment in the war on drugs and nobody related with drugs trade will be spared. Strong legal action shall be initiated against anyone indulging in drugs trade," ANI quoted Harmeet Singh, Commissioner of Police as saying.

He further said that this is historic and has never happened in country where disposal of seized illicit narcotic substances is taking place across country (at 4 locations) on direction of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

''Drugs worth Rs 100 crore have been burnt today," he added.

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