Lagatar24 Desk
Guwahati, June 25: In two separate operations on Sunday, the Assam Police’s Special Task Force (STF) found 2.20 kilogramme of heroin valued at Rs 18 crore in Hajo in the Kamrup district and Guwahati.
Two people have been detained by the police in this incident.
“The source information was received that a Manipur-based narcotics group was supplying narcotics through Assam,” said DIG (STF) Partha Sarathi Mahant.
“The input was acted upon and today in the sparrow fart hours, pinpoint info was received that the group in a car was on its way to deliver the contraband. Accordingly, the group was tracked down and the STF team and Kalyan Pathak, Additional SP (HQ) of Kamrup district chased the team. In order to escape the police dragnet, the peddlers overspeed and tried to escape. In the process, they lost control and the car fell around 100 feet down the hillock of Powa- Mecca near Hajo,” Partha Sarathi Mahanta added.
“However, police caught them and a search of the damaged vehicle yielded 100 soap boxes of heroin weighing 1.300 kg. A further search of their rented house in the Jalukbari area in Guwahati led to the recovery of another 65 packets of heroin weighing 900 grams,” the DIG stated.
The DIG estimates that the drugs’ market worth is somewhere close to Rs 18 crore.
More investigation is being done.
