Assam: Police Seize 43 Cartons of Smuggled Liquor

BISWANATH: An operation carried out by Itakhula Police led to the seizure of a large amount of illegal liquor.

Following the inputs from their sources, the team from the Itakhula police station was able to confiscate a large consignment of liquor that was being smuggled into Assam from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. The consignment consisted of a total 43 cartons of different brands of alcohol and was captured from a Maruti Suzuki Omni bearing the registration number AS 12 H 1648.

The officer in charge of the Itakhula Police Station, Bhaskar Jyoti Saikia led this operation and captured the vehicle. It has captured at the Balijuri locality in the Assam- Arunachal border as it came from Sijusa in Arunachal Pradesh with the liquor.

One Dhan Bhuyan belonging to Tupiya Betguri was also apprehended by the police along with the seized contraband. It is important to note that this region is a hotspot for the transport of contraband including alcohol, cannabis and other narcotics. Although the police have been able to arrest quite a large number of people in the past, miscreants always try to find a new way to move such materials.

Since January this year, law enforcement agencies in Mizoram have seized drugs worth Rs 271 crore smuggled from Myanmar and arrested at least 20 peddlers in connection, officials said on Monday. Officials in Aizawl said that the Assam Rifles, Mizoram Excise and Narcotics Department, Customs, and state police seized huge quantities of heroin, cannabis, methamphetamine (also called Yaba tablets) and pseudoephedrine tablets during this year.

Last year, law enforcement agencies seized 49.3 kg of heroin and 29.8 kg of pseudoephedrine tablets. A meeting of the ‘Core Committee on Ruihol Do’ (War against drugs) chaired by Mizoram Social Welfare and Excise Minister Lalrinawma held here, expressed concern over the increasing drug smuggling from Myanmar through the state and their abuse by a section of youths.