Guwahati News Desk: Gorchuk Police seized a huge cache of narcotics on Tuesday night.
Police sources informed that the drug cache was seized during regular checking at the ISBT (Inter-State Bus Terminus) premises here. The drug cache was seized from a passenger identified as Machunar Ali (54 years, son of Md Afaz Ali of Himgiri Path under Fatasil Ambari). He was about to board the ‘Night Super’ (AS 11AC 9085) proceeding to Mancachar.
The drugs were concealed in a black-coloured school bag. The Police team searched the bag with the help of the driver and the handyman “as he seemed to be suspicious”.
The bag contained 300 strips of ‘SAMPFX+’ capsules — each containing 24 capsules. Altogether 7,200 capsules of the suspected NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) were seized from the person’s bag.
In another incident based on a source input, the city SOG (Special Operation Group) team along with the staff from Gorchuk Police Station recovered 44 grams of suspected heroin from the possession of a person identified as Jayanti Begum (wife of Ainul Ali alias Mainul, resident of Goroimari under Chaygaon Police Station) near Bamunpara, near Haokuchi here. The Police also been seized a scooty (AS01 AN 9246) and a mobile phone besides Rs 3,300 in cash fromher possession.