Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 23 2009:
Imphal East District Police have arrested an illegal drug dealer and seized Spasmo Proxy-von capsules worth Rs 5 lakhs from his possession during a raid.
Parading the arrested person identified as Md Jahangir s/o Tayab Ali of Yairipik Ningthounai but staying at Deulahlane along with the seizure before media at the district polcie headquarters at Porompat today, SDPO Birbabu Singh informed that at around 10 pm yesterday personnel of Porompat Police Station picked up five persons from Porompat Pangal Leirak on reciept of specific information about the presence of drug dealers in the area.
At their disclosure, nine more persons were also picked on the same night.
On further questioning, they disclosed today morning that the SP tablets were supplied to them by one Jahangir of Yairipik Ningthounai but staying at Deulahlane.
Accordingly his house was raided and arrested Jahangir.
Further search of the house led to the seizure of four carton boxes of SP capsules containing 28648 tablets, the SDPO said.
The police officer further informed that on establishing that 13 persons out of the 14 picked up by the police yesterday were involved in cases of theft, they have been remanded to judicial custody after producing before a court.
While observing that just after insurgency, drug is the root causes of many of the problems in the State, the SDPO said the arrest of the drug dealer and the seizure could be possible due to the sincere efforts made by the personnel of Porompat PS.