Medications Valued At Rs 6.5 Cr Took In Manipur, One Held

Imphal, Oct 13 (IANS) : Assam Rifles troopers on Tuesday confiscated a massive cache of medications valued at Rs 6.5 crore in Manipur and also jailed someone, officials said.An Assam

Rifles official stated that acting on a tip-off, the cannon fodders of the main paramilitary pressure apprehended a youth from Haolenphai village in eastern Manipur’s Tengnoupal district, surrounding Myanmar.

” Over 1,30,000 lakh Methamphetamine tablet computers worth around Rs 6.5 crore have been recovered from the youth.The detainee and also the seized medicines have actually been turned over to the Manipur Police,” the official said.

The police and
Assam Rifles officers believe that the drugs were smuggled in from Mynamar, which shares 1,643 kilometres unfenced boundary with four northeastern states– Arunachal Pradesh (520 kilometres), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 kilometres).

Contraband of drugs, arms and also other contraband is happening often in the northeastern area from throughout the boundaries, especially from Myanmar.

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