Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Rs 5 crore worth drugs seized

KOHIMA, March 7  – Personnel of the Dimapur railway police and Excise department, Nagaland seized a huge quantity of banned drugs worth Rs 5.05 crore.

Sources said that the GRP personnel seized 1,15,200 strips of banned Cetirizine HCI & Pseudoephedrine HCI tablets worth more than Rs 5 crore in the international drugs market from Dimapur railway station last night.

The contraband, packed in six boxes, were to be delivered in Dimapur yesterday morning. A case has been registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

In a separate incident, Excise Narcotic Cell staff seized 17,280 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon worth around Rs 4,32,000 in the local market at Khuzama check gate, Kohima on Monday.

The sources said the drugs were seized from a passenger who was traveling in a public transport vehicle heading towards Manipur.

The accused has been identified as Md Adawar Rahman from Imphal East.

The accused in his statement has reportedly confessed to have smuggled the drugs from Kolkata to Dimapur by train.

Meanwhile, three persons were arrested after illegal drugs with a street value of Rs 24 lakh were allegedly seized from their possession in Manipur’s Thoubal district today.

The three were arrested at Lilong, Sora and Moijing areas in the district for allegedly possessing pseudoephedrine tablets and heroin, officials said.

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