Assam Police Seize Heroin and Mobile Phones, Two Drug Peddlers Nabbed In Byrnihat

GUWAHATI: Acting on intel, an East Guwahati Police Department team from Jorabat OP of Basistha PS apprehended 2 drug peddlers. The arrested individuals were identified as Libion Boro (18) and Julius Majaw (23), both originating from Byrnihat, at Jorabat Crossing.

The police authorities have seized 17 vials of heroin, weighing 22.7 gms, and 2 mobile phones from their possession.

Similarly, in a special anti-narcotics operation, South Salmara Mankachar police arrested a drug peddler and seized drugs from his possession during a raid in Kharuabandha OP in Assam’s South Salmara Mankachar district on Friday.

The items seized from his possession are 2.33 grams of suspected heroin in two plastic vials, 1,400 yaba tablets contained in 7 plastic packets, 134 empty plastic vials used for drug peddling, 21 aluminum foils, and one black-colored smartphone.

“Examination of his mobile phone has revealed evidence of drug smuggling activities linked to Bangladesh. The accused has confessed to supplying contraband drugs to the Bangladesh side by throwing. Further inquiry is ongoing to identify and apprehend other individuals involved,” said a police official.

In another major operation by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) against organized drug syndicates operating in the North Eastern Region of India, 26 kg of methamphetamine tablets, smuggled into India through the Indo-Myanmar border in Mizoram, were seized at the Dwarband Bazar area of Cachar District, Assam, on January 19.

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