Drugs seized
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 14 2015 :
A combined team of Narcotics Control Bureau, BSF Field G and 54th Battalion BSF conducted a raid at a mobile drug manufacturing unit, located at Thoubal Moijing Awang Leikai under Thoubal police station and arrested the owner of the unit along with a huge quantity of morphine crude cake and materials used in the manufacture of heroin at around 6.30 pm on February 12 .
According to a reliable source, Heroin Number-4 is manufactured from this crude cake.
The arrested man has been identified as Md Farish Khan (20) s/o Md Siraj Ahmad of Moijing Awang Leikai.
The source said that Farish Khan had admitted that he has been running the manufacturing unit in his house along with some other persons.
However, Farish's accomplices managed to flee the house before the combined team reached there.
44 kg of crude morphine cake worth Rs 44 lakh, 300 gm of morphine powder worth Rs 1.35 lakh, nine plastic containers, one aluminium pot, one glass can, one wooden pressing machine used for extracting morphine and one kg of ammonium chloride were seized during the crack down.
Sources said that a kg of morphine powder costs Rs 4.5 lakh and crude morphine cake costs Rs 1 lakh per kg.
Sources further said that locals of Moijing pelted stones on the combined team as they were returning to their headquarters after the raid.
The arrested person was produced before the Court yesterday and remanded to Judicial custody till February 27 .
Further investigation is going, the source said.