Assam Rifles and Manipur Police on Thursday seized heroin worth Rs 3.5 crore hidden inside pumpkins, which is suspected to be smuggled from neighboring Myanmar. Acting on a tip-off, security forces intercepted a pickup truck going from Tipaimukh in Phirzawal district towards Cachar in southern Assam at Jiribam and arrested two drug smugglers – Abdul Mannan Majumdar and Khalil Ullah Barbhuiya – police said. .
Upon inspection, the security personnel found 363.45 grams of heroin in 30 soap boxes, which were hidden in pumpkins loaded in a pickup truck along with other vegetables. The detained persons and seized narcotics have been handed over to Jiribam police station for further legal action.
CM Biren Singh congratulated the security forces
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, in a post on his social media handle X, congratulated the security forces for their excellent work in combating the drug trafficking trade. In another post, Singh spoke about the “war on drugs” campaign launched by the BJP government in Manipur. He said, “We have recovered heroin drugs, opium, pills etc. worth more than Rs 60,000 crore, destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of opium plantations… only to save our Indian youth. we will continue.”
Ganja worth Rs 1 crore was being carried hidden under the cover of Poha.
Let us tell you that last month a similar case came to light from Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh where the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) recovered about 655 kg of ganja from a truck and arrested two smugglers. The ganja was being brought to Sagar from Odisha by hiding it under the guise of poha. The NCB team took action and seized ganja and the truck.
655 kg ganja found in 550 bags of poha
Ritesh Ranjan, regional director of NCB’s Indore unit, had told that the recovered consignment of ganja was being sent from Sonpur district of Odisha to Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh and its price in the market was estimated to be around Rs 1 crore. On the information of the informer, the NCB team searched a truck in Banda police station area of Sagar district and found about 655 kg of ganja hidden in it under the cover of 550 bags of Poha.
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