HT Correspondent
BOKAJAN, Feb 15: Dillai police in their routine checking at Dillai intercepted a couple riding a motorcycle with registration AS 21 L 5396 in the evening of Saturday. The motorcycle was coming from the direction of Dimapur and moving towards Manja. The police on suspicion frisked the couple and recovered three suspected packets of heroin.
The drug packets were seized in the presence of independent witnesses. The drugs weigh 0.36 grams with an estimated market value of Rs. 2.5 lakh.
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It may be mentioned that NH coming into Karbi Anglong from Dimapur, Nagaland has long been used as a drugs and gun running route. The illegal trade and smuggling has been believed to be originating from the notorious Golden Triangle with its points at Laos, Myanmar and Thailand where opium cultivation, ethnic insurgency and narco armies rule.
