Newmai News Network
Shillong | February 21
Police have intercepted 10.174 kgs of Amphetamine W.Y which is also known as Yaba tablets from a tourist taxi bound for Shillong on Friday.
Acting on a tip of about the movement of these drugs in a tourist taxi which was travelling from Guwahati to Shillong, the Anti Narcotics Task Force and police personnel from Mawlai police station intercepted the vehicle at Mawiongrim Viewpoint.
“The vehicle was intercepted at the Viewpoint and it was occupied by five persons and the driver. On following the procedures of NDPS Act and searching the vehicle and personal belongings of the occupants, 10.174 kg of suspected Amphetamine W.Y @ Yaba tablets were found to be inside the travel trolley of a passenger,” the Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Khasi Hills district, Claudia Lyngwa informed.
She also said that examination on the passenger in question revealed that he was in conspiracy of trafficking the contraband drugs along with four other occupants of the vehicle.
All five accused have been arrested and a case has been registered.
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