Drugs worth Rs 400 crore seized in Cachar in 45 days

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SILCHAR: In last one and a half month, Cachar police had confiscated contraband narcotic substances worth Rs. 400 crore. This statistic explains how the district with three interstate borders has become a safe passage for the drug syndicate. Though Cachar is sharing border with Meghalaya, this route is mainly used to smuggle out the narcotic substances, procured from Mizoram and Manipur, both sharing borders with Myanmar. Narcotic substances like heroine, marijuana, yaba tablets and Burmese cigarettes are mainly smuggled into.

Further a solid syndicate of Burmese supari is extremely active in this region and tonnes of betel nuts are transported to western and northern India which are used to make 'gutka'. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had instructed Assam Police to strength vigilance as the government had adopted zero tolerance policy against drugs syndicate. Since then Operation All Out by police against drug mafia was intensified and in regular intervals consignments carrying narcotic substances were confiscated by police.

On Thursday evening police seized 20 thousand 'WY' tablets from a woman at Dighli Manipuribasti in Jirighat neighbouring Manipur. Price of the substances was estimated to be around Rs 6 crore in international market, a police source claimed. The woman, identified as Homiking Hmar, 37, was carrying the tablets in a gunny bags. Based on confirmed information, Jirighat police led by OC Chitta Ranjan Bora stopped her and even recovered the banned tablets. Interestingly police seized 50 thousand banned tablets in a village named Kakmara near Banshkandi in Lakhipur constituency. Police source said, since vigilance had been intensified in Dholai constituency which share a border with Mizoram and a hot spot of smuggling, the syndicate might have started using Manipur border.

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