Drug Peddlers Arrested East Siang Police At Pasighat

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Itanagar: East Siang district police in Arunachal Pradesh has arrested two suspected drug peddlers and seized 237 gms of opium from their possession. Acting on inputs from their sources, the Women Against Social Evils (WASE) informed the police department for a time about raid and action against two suspected opium peddlers which finally led to the arrest of the two peddlers at Pasighat, the district headquarters, official sources informed. “We received confirmed inputs from our sources and accordingly, we informed the police and in our combined raid two suspected drug peddlers were caught red handed with opium,” informed WASE General Secretary Joya Tasung Moyong.

An FIR has been lodged against the peddlers by WASE and the peddlers, namely Opang Taying and Otit Tangu have been arrested along with the seizure of their opium items with opium smoking pipes.

Police has registered a case against the duo under NDPS Act.

WASE sources informed that the opium was supplied from Laimekuri under Dhemaji district, Assam.

Raising serious concern about the ‘growing menace of drug addictions and its peddling in the region, WASE has appealed the state government led by Chief Minister Pema Khandu to take it up with his Assam counterpart to tackle the menace, which it said is rampantly prevailing in Assam-Arunachal boundary areas.

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