Security forces have seized banned drugs worth more than Rs 1.66 crore and arrested drug peddlers in two separate operations in Assam's Karimganj district and Manipur's Tamenglong district.
As per intelligence input, Karimganj district police launched an operation at Malua area near Badarpur on Friday night and seized 18,000 Yaba tablets worth Rs 90 lakh from a house owned by Samim Ahmed Tapadar.
Police held two accused identified as Samim Ahmed Tapadar and Zakir Hussain.
An official from Karimganj district stated that the seized Yaba tablets were transported through Myanmar border to be smuggled into the northeastern states and were then moved to various parts of the region and Bangladesh.
In another instance, the troops of Assam Rifles seized suspected brown sugar and apprehended a drug peddler at Moreh area along Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur's Tamenglong district.
Receiving specific information movement of contraband across the Indo-Myanmar border, a team of Moreh Battalion of Assam Rifles launched an operation at Hoelenphai area on Friday evening and observed movement of a suspected person who was challenged for frisking.
While seeing the security personnel, the man tried to escape and was apprehended by the troops.
On thorough inspection, at least 380 grams of suspected brown sugar worth Rs 76 lakh was nabbed from the accused.
It is to be mentioned that Assam Rifles troops also apprehended the person identified as Saimanthang Mate hailing from Moreh area and he disclosed the information that he was asked by a Myanmar national to transport the consignment to Moreh and further beyond Khudengthabi, bypassing the check posts en route.