GUWAHATI, Sept 18: Drugs worth Rs 12 crore have been seized and a peddler arrested by police in Assam’s Cachar district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The police seized 40,000 Yaba tablets in a major anti-narcotics operation in the Kathalbasti area of the district, the chief minister posted on X.
‘High hopes, hard fall. Rs12 crore drug seized! In a precise anti narcotics operation at Kathalbasti, near Kathal Bye Pass, @CacharPolice seized 40,000 yaba tablets and arrested one peddler’, Sarma said.
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Praising the police for the seizure, the CM said, ‘Great job, @assampolice’.
Necessary legal procedures have already been initiated.
Yaba, meaning crazy medicine in Thai, is illegal in the country because it contains methamphetamine, a Schedule II substance under the Controlled Substances Act, and caffeine. (PTI)
