Woman from Manipur held in drug bust

Diphu, Jun 17
Two persons, including a wanted woman drug dealer, were arrested and heroin worth Rs 7 crore was seized from their possession in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Thursday, police said, reports Press Trust of India.
Based on inputs provided by arrested peddlers about a Dimapur-based woman running a large drug racket, police personnel posed as potential customers who wanted to buy good quality heroin, an officer said.
Though the woman was initially reluctant, she agreed to deliver the drug consignment and was nabbed, along with another person, with 164 packets of high-quality heroin weighing 2.12 kg at Janak Pukhuri in Khatkhati police station area, he said.
The woman, referred to as ‘Didi’ (elder sister) by drug buyers, was identified as Th Paone from Manipur who allegedly supplied drugs to places like Nagaon, Morigaon and Guwahati in Assam, the officer said.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted, “In a big breakthrough, @assampolice has busted a big supply chain network with narco terror angle in Karbi Anglong. Over 2 kg pure heroin worth Rs 7 cr in international market seized.
Compliments to Assam Police for relentlessly working on breaking the backbone of the drug cartel.”
Rs 21 Cr gold biscuits found in car : The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials, in a massive operation, have seized more than 43 kg of gold biscuits worth Rs 21 crore from Imphal in Manipur.
On receiving inputs, officials on Tuesday intercepted a car in the city in which two people were travelling. After questioning them and a thorough search, gold biscuits were found hidden inside three different cavities especially made inside the vehicle, officials said.
It took around 18 hours for the officials to get all the 260 foreign-made gold biscuits out from the cavities.
Officials said the same vehicle had also been previously used for smuggling.
Gold smuggling continues unabated in Manipur, bordering Myanmar, even amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
In the last three months, around 67 kg of gold worth over Rs 33 crore has been seized from the Guwahati zonal unit Myanmar sector. Of this, 55 kg of gold alone has been seized in June till now.
Officials said the gold is smuggled through the India-Myanmar border.
Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases, the Manipur Government has extended the ongoing curfew in seven districts, including Imphal, till June 30 while inter-district movement remains prohibited.
NDTV