Baruni cleared of Poppy
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 30 2014:
Narcotics & Affairs of Border (NAB), Manipur under the supervision of SP/NAB, Manipur in co-ordination with NCB, Imphal Sub zone and Imphal East District police conducted a special operation in which illicit poppy cultivation at Nongmaiching/Baruni hill range in Imphal East district was destroyed on January 29 .
According to a statement issued by S Gautam Singh, MPS, SP/NAB Manipur cum PRO Police Department, Manipur, during the operation, 17 acres of poppy cultivated areas containing more than 17 lakh poppy plants were destroyed.
The special operation resulted in destruction of poppy plants on the eve of their harvesting thereby preventing extraction of large quantity of opium, which is later processed to convert into heroin, a narcotic drug under NDPS Act, 1985 .
In this regard, 2 separate cases have been registered at NAB/PS and investigation is going on, the PRO added.