Drugs worth Rs 10 lakh seized in Dimapur

DIMAPUR, Oct 18 – In a major haul, Dimapur East police seized a huge consignment of 14,11,000 tablets of controlled drugs worth Rs 10 lakh from a cosmetic shop located on the first floor of Hazi Park shopping complex here.

The banned drugs were reportedly transported from Delhi to Dimapur through the Railway Mail Service and shifted to the godown by the accused, one Mahadev Prasad, owner of the shop.

Police told reporters today that he received specific information of the consignment and had sent some plain clothes police personnel along with two officers to locate the godown.

On raiding the place, police found the controlled drugs kept hidden in a secret compartment built on the ceiling of the shop. The drugs were packed in 17 cartons.

The seized drugs included 10,08,000 tablets of Redikuf (Pseudeophedrine Hydcrochloride & Bromhexine Hydrochloride) 99,000 tablets of Sucet (Cetrizine Dihydrochloride & Pseudeophedrine HCI) and Cetcof (Cetirizine Hydrochloride & Pseudeophedrine HCI tablets).

These illegal consignments reportedly go to Manipur and Myanmar where the drugs are in high demand. Certain compositions of these drugs are learnt to be used for making some other illegal drugs like heroin, police said quoting sources.

The seized drugs are worth around Rs 10 lakh in Delhi with the price per strip of ten tablets ranging from Rs 3-10.

According to medical experts, the seized drugs have very high dosage of 40 mg which can sedate a normal person for at least 3 days.

The accused has been chargesheeted under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and investigation is on to ascertain the source and destination of these drugs, police said.

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Police find bodies of two schoolgirls

ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Police have found the decomposed bodies of two schoolgirls in East Siang district. The corpses were found from Loklung bamboo garden near Ngorlung village under Ruksin circle of the district on Saturday, a source said.

The bodies have been identified to be that of 15-year-old Rinky Lohar, a Class VIII student of Govt HS School Ruksin, and Laxmi Kumari Prasad (16), a Class IX student of the same school who reportedly went missing last Monday.

An FIR has been lodged at Ruksin police station. The sources further informed that the girls had committed suicide by hanging themselves with a scarf (chunni). After post-mortem, the bodies were handed over to their relatives. A case of unnatural death has been registered.

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Nagaland announces reward for fake-notes gang leader

Kohima, Oct 16 : Nagaland has announced a reward of Rs.50,000 for information about the leader of the gang involved in circulating counterfeit Indian currency notes in the state, a minister said Monday.

"Any person who can provide detailed information on the ring leader circulating fake notes in Nagaland will be given a cash reward of Rs.50,000," Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister Kuzholuzo Neinu told IANS on phone.

Moreover, Neinu promised that the identity of the informant will be kept secret.

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has expressed serious concern over recovery of fake currency notes in the state and said pushing fake currency is a serious crime which should be dealt with firmly.

Nagaland Police Oct 5 arrested three people who were attempting to deposit counterfeit currency notes with a face value of Rs.45,000 in a State Bank of India branch in Nagaland's Phek district.

"A case has been filed against the culprits and it must be ensured that severe action is initiated," Rio said.

Phek district is about 140 km east of Kohima, the state capital of Nagaland.

"We have arrested the depositor Vekhoneyi Chakhesang and two other people but at the moment we would not reveal the identities of the other two accused in the case in order to ensure our investigation is not hampered," Y.E. Ngullie, the district police chief of Phek, said.

A special investigation team (SIT) headed by Phek Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl SP) Imtimeren is probing the case, he said.

"The SIT is examining the case and how this racket (of counterfeit notes) is spreading in the state. The team will investigate all angles," Ngullie said.

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2 Nagas drugged, looted in Guwahati

DIMAPUR, Oct 16 – Two Nagas were reportedly drugged in an eatery in Guwahati and looted of their belongings on October 12.

The victims identified as Pyingchio Murry and Renabomo Lotha of Baghty town of Phek district became unconscious after consuming the tea laced with drugs in the eatery and their belongings including cash, mobile phones, etc., were taken away by the eatery employees, Ad-hoc Baghty Town Council chairman Yanpvuthung Kithan said in a release today.

They were later hospitalised and are currently undergoing treatment.

Both had gone to visit their children who are studying in Guwahati but failed to meet them following the incident.

Strongly condemning the incident, the Town Council urged the authority concerned to take stern action against the culprits as per law. It also urged all Nagas to be vigilant so as to avoid such incidents in future.

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Arrested Manipur cop leads to seizure of 74 kgs of narcotic

Widening its probe into the arrest of a Manipur police official caught allegedly smuggling drugs at the IGI airport, anti-narcotics sleuths today recovered 74 kgs of contraband from a location in the capital.

The seized consignment of pseudoephedrine is estimated to cost Rs 80 lakh in the domestic market. Sleuths suspect that a syndicate operation was behind the incident as the drug was to be smuggled from Manipur to neighbouring Myanmar.

The Manipur cop, Chlalkhogin, along with his wife and an another associate were arrested yesterday by the Narcotics Control Bureau after they received a tip-off from CISF.

Confirming the development, NCB zonal director (Delhi) Manoranjan Kumar told PTI that they have seized additional 74 kgs of narcotic after getting information about it from Chlalkhogin.

Twenty four kgs of pseudoephedrine was allegedly seized from the Manipur cop yesterday after the contraband was detected in his bag at the IGI airport.

The NCB had arrested the trio under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and has now put them under interrogation.

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Police official among 3 arrested at IGI for smuggling

New Delhi: A Manipur police official and two others were Saturday arrested for allegedly smuggling contraband worth Rs 20 lakh from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here.

The official, identified as one Chlalkhogin, is a constable in Manipur police and he was accompanied with his wife Chongboi and another person Satkholal when they were intercepted by a CISF check squad at the terminal 3 of the IGI.

A senior CISF officer said that the trio were intercepted in the wee hours around 5 am, just before they were scheduled to board an Indigo flight (6E-221) to Guwahati.

"Their baggages appeared to be suspicious. On profiling, they were selected for thorough checking. During screening of one of their baggages about 24 kgs of Pseudoephedrine drug was detected and recovered," CISF spokesperson Hemendra Singh said.

The CISF then called up the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths who arrested the trio under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

The NCB estimated the value of the drug consignment to be about Rs 20 lakh in the domestic market while the same volume would fetch Rs one crore in the international market, he said.

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