Assam cops seize drugs valued at Rs 10 crore, 5 arrested

GUWAHATI: Assam police in Guwahati busted an inter-state drugs racket with banned narcotics called World is Yours (WY) valued at over Rs 10 crore on Thursday night.

Police arrested five persons in connection with the case. They have been identified as Dilwar Ali and

Sakir Ahmed

of Manipur,

Masud Ahmed

and

Mohammed Sahid

of Uttar Pradesh and Mahmood Alam of Meghalaya. The police also seized Rs 1.22 lakh in cash along with the consignment of drugs from the possession of the five.

Partha Sarathi Mahanta

, joint commissioner of police, Guwahati, said, “The consignment was smuggled from Moreh, a town on the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur, to Kohima in Nagaland. From Kohima, it was being smuggled via Guwahati to Bangalore and Delhi. Based on inputs, police in Guwahati intercepted a vehicle and seized the banned drugs.”