Drugs seized
Imphal, Aug 22 : A team of Special Intelligence Unit (SIU) of Imphal West district police has recovered a whie colour polybag containing banned spasmo Proxyvon capsules, from the Imphal Head Post Office even as Assam Rifles troops rounded up a Myanmar national in connection with drug smuggling.
According to an informed source, the SIU team launched a search at the Post Office this afternoon subsequently leading to the discovery of the polybag with 2592 strips (20,676 pieces) of SP capsule.
An SIU official, who was part of the search team, disclosed that the bag was sent by one Kh Boboy from Patel Chest, Delhi-7 and addressed to an individual in Mayang Imphal named as Ningthoujam Ratan.
The bag remained as unclaimed item for the past many days, maintained the official.
It is pertinent to mention here that a SIU team had also recovered a large number of Robocoff tablet worth about Rs 8 lakh from a Bolero Jeep yesterday at Ghari area along the Airport Road.
Both the Post Office and Ghari operations were launched under the joint supervision of SIU Inspector Ranjit and SI Amitab.
It is said that most of the psychotropic drugs are brought/sent to manipur from the cities of Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati.
A case has been registered at Imphal police station for further investigation.
On the other hand, troops of 9 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector have reportedly apprehended a Myanmarese drug pedlar from Moreh Ward 7 on August 21.
identifying the arrested individual as Kujai s/o Ohi from Burma Mandli (Myanmar), a PRO IGAR (S) release informed that kujai along with 72.5 kgs of banned Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride tablets seized from his possession has been handed over to Narcotics Control Bureau, Imphal.
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