Manipur drug dealers held in Kolkata ‘Party drugs’ worth Rs 2 Cr seized

Kolkata, Feb 21 (HT)
Two alleged drug dealers from Manipur, who were travelling in a car registered in Assam, were arrested by the special task force of the Kolkata Police in the southern part of the city on Thursday. Yaba tablets worth Rs 2.3 crore in the black market were seized from the car. Yaba tablets are popularly known as ‘party drugs’.
The dealers came from the Lilong police station area of Thoubal district in Manipur.
City police officials said the dealers, Syed Amir Hussain, 25, and Md Ataour Rahman, 33, along with their driver Hanif Sheikh, 34, a resident of Kaliachak in Bengal’s Malda district, were arrested from the Taratala area.
The tablets were hidden inside the front and rear door panels of the vehicle. More than eight kilos of drugs were hidden in the packets.
The accused men were charged under Section 22(c) and 29 of the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. A city Court remanded them to police custody till March 6.
10 kgs of Yaba tablets seized  : Police have intercepted 10.174 kgs of Amphetamine WY which is also known as Yaba tablets from a tourist taxi bound for Shillong on Friday, reports NNN.
Acting on a tip of about the movement of these drugs in a tourist taxi which was travelling from Guwahati to Shillong, the Anti Narcotics Task Force and police personnel from Mawlai police station intercepted the vehicle at Mawiongrim Viewpoint.
“The vehicle was intercepted at the Viewpoint and it was occupied by five persons and the driver. On following the procedures of NDPS Act and searching the vehicle and personal belongings of the occupants, 10.174 kg of suspected Amphetamine WY @ Yaba tablets were found to be inside the travel trolley of a passenger,” the Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Khasi Hills district, Claudia Lyngwa informed.
She also said that examination on the passenger in question revealed that he was in conspiracy of trafficking the contraband drugs along with four other occupants of the vehicle.
All five accused have been arrested and a case has been registered vide Mawlai police station Case No. 14(02)2020 U/S 29/21 (c) NDPS Act.