IMPHAL, Feb 26 – Close on the heels of arrest of an army officer and five others for carrying contraband drugs worth Rs 15 crores yesterday, the Manipur Narcotics and Affairs of Border (NAB) team have detected a consignment of drugs at the Tulihal airport here, Police said today.
Acting on specific information that some illegal drugs are being transported through air cargo, an NAB team rushed to Tulihal airport here and seized a consignment of contraband drugs at around 3.35 pm today, said a press release.
One non-Manipuri youth in his early thirties was arrested along with the suspected consignment. The youth, identified as one Rajkumar Rai of Thangal Bazar here and hailing from Bihar was detained. On checking the consignment covered by white plastic gunny bag, the team found over a lakh Petas-TR tablets Pseudoephedrine in three cartons.
Though no sender’s name was written on the consignment, “Mr R Kumar, Thangal Bazaar,Imphal Manipur (M)986224566” was written on the consignment.
The estimated cost of the drugs is around Rs 8 lakhs. According to police, the seized drugs were to be used in manufacturing a psychotropic substances called ‘WY’ somewhere in south Asian countries.
Meanwhile, the army officer and five others who were detained along with Rs 15 crore worth of contraband drugs here yesterday, have been remanded to police custody for 12 days by the Chief Judicial Magistrate this afternoon, sources added.
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