A combined team of Assam Rifles and police on Saturday seized drugs worth Rs 30 lakh and a country-made pistol from a Muslim youth at Lilong area in the district. Thoubal police commandos confiscated a another consignment of drugs on Sunday.
On February 24, police commandos had seized pseudoephedrine hydrochloride worth over Rs 20 crore from six people including defence spokesman Colonel Ajay Chowdhry on the way to the border town of Moreh.
During a special drive on Saturday morning, Assam Rifles soldiers and the police seized over 8,000 Spasmo Proxyvon (SP) and Nitrosun 10 tablets packed in seven packets, two mobile phones and a pistol from the house of Md Wahidur Rahaman (24), police sources said.
The seized drugs were smuggled from Guwahati and a case has been registered against the accused, the sources added.
A police commando team on Sunday morning seized 160 SP tablets, three grams of heroin power, two syringes and a camouflage uniform with three-star shoulder tags from three persons including a tribal youth claiming to be a self-styled captain of a Naga rebel group.
The state cabinet, which has taken serious note of drug trafficking, has already decided to hand over the February 24 drug haul case to the CBI even as a large number of civil bodies and anti-drug organizations continued to protest against the growing drug menace gripping the state.
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