Huge quantity of drug seized at Lilong
Source: IT News

Imphal, October 11 2019: In yet another drive, a team of Thoubal district Police seized huge quantity of drugs hidden in a hole built beneath the ground using Sintex from Lilong area yesterday evening.

Briefing media persons SP, Thoubal District, Dr S Ibomcha said that yesterday at around 7 pm based on a specific input about the presence of drug peddlers, two police team raided the residence of one Md Abdur Rashid@Linthoi (32) S/o (L) Md Tomba and Md Momin Khan(27) S/o (L) Md Tomba of Lilong Tairenmakhong.

Huge quantity of drug seized at Lilong

The two teams of Lilong Police Station led by Inspector Oinam Ajit Singh assisted by SI Md Isha Khan and ASI Laishram Tikendro of Lilong P S accompanied by volunteers of All Lilong Anti-Drug Association(ALADA) and ANJUMAN rushed to the said house at Lilong Tairen Makhong.

"On reaching the house at around 8:30 pm, our police team and the volunteers of ALADA and ANJUMAN cordoned the two houses very strictly and the said two houses share one common courtyard", SP Ibomcha said.

He further said that the police team called out the family members of the house of Md Momin Khan of Lilong Tairen Makhong.

The door of the house was locked from inside and despite asking several times to open the door the family members did not open the door of the house for about 10 minutes in a very suspicious manner.

Later one individual who later identified himself as Md Momin Khan (27) opened the door.

Then the police team started searching the Sintex (containing water) inside the kitchen of the house and found one yellowish transparent polythene containing some blue colour capsules suspected to be SP capsules and some suspected N-10 tablets floating inside the syntax.

Then the police team picked up the said tablets and on counting the blue colour capsules, found 42 nos of suspected SP capsules and 36 nos of suspected N-10 tablets (cut off from the strips) .

The said drugs were seized on the spot and arrested Md Momin Khan.

After that the police team move on to the house of Md Abdur Rashid@ Linthoi(32) S/o (L) Md Tomba of Lilong TairenMakhong, which was previously kept cordoned by the police team and seized huge quantity of drugs (SP tablets 765 nos) hidden in an iron box.

At the kitchen a gunny bag containing a transparent polythene plastic containing 5,498(five thousand four hundred and ninety eight) white colour small tablets suspected to be Pseudoephidrine Cough syrups marked as Bolirex-New were found.

At the front room of the house one Sintex embedded beneath the ground of the bed where huge quantity of Cough syrup bottles marked as Bolirex-were hidden.

A person identified as Md Abdur Rashid@Linthoi (32) S/o (L) Md Tomba was arrested in connection with the seizure of the drugs.

On follow up action the police arrested two of his associates namely Md Nawaz @ Boycha (19) S/o Md Sirajur of Lilong Turel Ahanbi Boroi Makhong and Md Aziz @ Abungo (20) S/o Md Abdul Hasim of Lilong Turel Ahanbi Boroi Makhong.

A case has been registered at Lilong Police Station against the accused persons.