Two held with drugs parcel
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 22 2014 :
A team of city police station arrested two persons along with a huge consignment of Spasmo Proxyvon capsules and Nitrosun-10 tablets from Thangal Bazar at around 1.40 pm yesterday.
The seized drugs are worth about Rs 5 lakh.
Parading the two persons along with the seized drugs before the media at city police station, Imphal West Additional SP (Law and Order) N Birbabu said that police got an information from a reliable source about the arrival of a suspicious parcel at Bright Super Cargo Service, Thangal Bazar yesterday.
The source told the police that the parcel was imprinted with the address, 'SELINA Shoes, Kakching Bazar, Mobile Number 9856580298' .
Acting on this reliable information, a police team led by city police station OC Sudhirkumar and SDPO A Ghanashyam waited for the owner of the parcel near the cargo service, the police officer said.
Soon after two persons came out from the cargo service after collecting the parcel.
The two were stopped by the police team, N Birbabu said and added that 53040 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon and 220 strips of Nitrosun-10 tablets were found concealed with shoes, chappals and cloth inside the parcel.
The police team immediately arrested the duo and filed an FIR against them under FIR number 187 (11) 2014 city police station under Section 21 (c)/25 (a) ND&PS Act and 419/420/34 IPC.
The two arrested persons have been identified as Mayanglambam Ibomcha (50) s/o (L) Modhumangol of Kakching Wairi Khunyai Leikai and Laishram Rocky (30) s/o M Kokngang of Changangei Mayai Leikai, at present staying at Kakching Mayai Leikai Pat Pareng.
They were today produced before an NDPS Court and remanded to police custody for seven days for further investigation.
L Birbabu said that the duo had revealed that they went to Kolkata recently and sent the parcel to their address.