AIZAWL: The Assam Rifles, along with other agencies, seized on Tuesday one lakh highly addictive methamphetamine tablets, also known as 'Yaba' tablets, valued at Rs 33.33 crore and arrested a drug peddler, defence officials said. A defence spokesman said that acting on a tip-off, the paramilitary troopers, accompanied by the personnel of the special narcotics police station and the Mizoram Police CID (Crime), recovered the drugs from Chhunga bus terminal in Aizawl district and apprehended the drug peddler.
The detainee was carrying the methamphetamine tablets in several cement bags. The seized drugs and apprehended person were handed over to a special narcotics police station for further legal proceedings under the Narcotics, Drugs, and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The methamphetamine tablets have been seized in less than 24 hours after Mizoram Police on Monday seized heroin valued at Rs 12 crore and arrested a person in this connection in Aizawl district. Meanwhile, the Tripura police earlier this month seized 60,000 methamphetamine tablets, valued at Rs 6 crore, and arrested three drug peddlers in northern Tripura.
The security personnel, quoting the arrested drug peddlers, said that the drugs were brought from Myanmar and were intended to be smuggled into Bangladesh. (IANS)
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