Meghalaya: ANTF team seizes heroin worth 117.58 grams, four persons arrested

SHILLONG:

The Anti Narcotic Task Force (ANTF) team acting on a tip-off arrested four persons and seized 10 soapboxes containing an illegal consignment of contraband transported from Manipur to Meghalaya.

According to sources, the illegal consignment of contraband was transported via a Network Travel Bus to Shillong from Manipur and was to be delivered to a person named Lhunkhojang Kuki at Demthring Petrol Pump.

The ANTF team conducted a surveillance in the area and intercepted a man after he had taken a carton containing suspected illegal contraband from the driver of the bus at around 9 am.

While checking the carton, they recovered 10 soapboxes of heroin. The total net weight of the contraband is 117.58 grams.

A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985.

Based on an intelligence tip off that an illegal consignment of contraband is being brought via a Network Travels Bus...

Posted by East Khasi Hills Police, Meghalaya on  Saturday, February 13, 2021

(Edited by Laxmi Chyrmang)