SP capsules seized at North AOC
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 03 2012:
A combined team of Narcotic Cell of Imphal West district police and Special Intelligence Unit seized a huge cache of contraband SP capsules from an Inter-State bus at North AOC along with the arrest of a person today.
A senior police officer who led the combined team in the operation informed that two cartons fully packed with SP capsules were recovered at North AOC from an Inter-state bus coming from Guwahati this evening around 4 .
The operation was carried out based on specific input that the contraband drugs were loaded in a Guwahati-Imphal bound bus.
The owner of the banned drugs was arrested after interrogating the driver of the bus.
The owner has been identified as one Md Rahman (32) s/o Md Tomba of Lilong Turel Ahanbi.
The driver of the bus, identified as Laishram Robindro (42) of Nambol Phoijing Awang Leikai, was also apprehended by the team.
The SP capsules were brought from Guwahati's Paltan Bazar, the officer said.
Apart from two big carton boxes each containing 1728 stripes of the capsules, 48 small carton boxes each containing 18 stripes of SP capsules were seized.
The price of each strip containing 18 capsules is valued at Rs 500-1000 here, the officer said.