Three including minor boy arrested with brown sugar in Manipur

Newmai News Network

Imphal | September 17

 

Three persons including a minor boy and a woman were arrested along with brown sugar worth around Rs 1 crore in the international market by security forces in Manipur’s border town Moreh.

 

A police source said that the trio was arrested by a combined team of police commandos and 12 Assam Rifles who conducted a check to Alto car bearing at Khudengthabi check post along NH-102 on Monday, around 3.30 pm

 

The security forces detected  brown sugar weighing around 500 gm concealing in the vehicle during the frisking exercise. The seized item would worth around Rs 1 crore in the international market, the police source said.

 

The drug peddlers including the minor boy along with the seized item have been handed over to Moreh police station on Monday evening, around 6 pm, the police source added.