Based on a secret information Cachar Police, along with BSF, conducted a special operation against the transportation of narcotic substances at the Katakhal area in Silchar city on October 12 night. The joint team intercepted one Tata Xenon vehicle (bearing Registration No MZ05 9625). The police team stopped the vehicle, but the two drug smugglers immediately abandoned the car and fled away, crossing the Katakhal River and taking advantage of the darkness. The police team searched and recovered twenty-six packets containing 260000 (two lakhs sixty thousand ) yaba tablets from specially made secret chambers inside the vehicle. Cachar police superintendent Numal Mahatta said that the price of the narcotics seized in the black market is about 70 crores.
The consignment of the narcotics substance is illegally transported from Champai district of Mizoram. Police sources said that the contraband was originally smuggled from Myanmar to Mizoram. Thereafter, it was smuggled to Cachar to probably further smuggle it to Bangladesh or other parts of India. Further investigation has been on. On 10th October, Assam Police recovered a huge quantity of cannabis weighing 1,705 kilograms from a dumper in Cachar district. Acting on intelligence inputs, Cachar Police carried out a special operation in the Kalain area where they intercepted the dumper. The vehicle was en route to Meghalaya from Tripura via Assam when it was seized in Digorkhal area.
The special operation resulted in the recovery of 1,705kg of cannabis whose market value is suspected to be over crores in rupees.
It should be mentioned that on July 25 this year Cachar police intercepted one vehicle coming from Mizoram and a large number of packets filled with heroin and Yaba tablets were seized from the vehicle. Heroin weighing about 2.5kgs was kept under the bonnet of the car while 1,00,000 Yaba tablets were recovered from the boot space.The price of these narcotic substances worth around Rupees 45 crores, Police said. The consignment came from Mizoram and was going towards West Bengal. Police sources said that after the unrest started in Manipur in May, huge amounts of drugs are being smuggled through Mizoram. As Cachar shares borders with both Manipur and Mizoram the drugs smuggle to other parts of India and Bangladesh pass through the district. Vigilant Cachar police have seized contraband worth Rupees over 150 crores came from Mizoram in the last 5 months.
