Guwahati, Sep 18 (PTI) 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.
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 DG DG RG
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