4 held with drugs worth overRs. 4 crore in Meghalaya

Meghalaya Police and the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) on Sunday seized over one Kg of heroin worth Rs. 4.40 crore and arrested four notorious inter-state drugs traffickers, including three women, from Manipur.
Based on credible intelligence input, sleuths of the ANTF of Meghalaya and the East Jaintia Hills district police conducted a coordinated checking of vehicles under the jurisdiction of Lumshnong Police Station at Umkiang Police Patrol Post in the early hours of Sunday. “During the operation, the team successfully apprehended three women suspected to be notorious women drug suppliers and recovered four travel bags containing 80 soap boxes (961.33 grams) of heroin from their possession,” Vikash Kumar, the district police chief of East Jaintia Hills, said.
Kumar said the arrested drug suppliers identified as Kimnei (33), Dimkhothing (47) and Ngaiting (40) of Khongjom, PS Tengnoupal, Manipur are suspected to be part of larger organised crime syndicate operating part of an inter-state gang that transports drugs from Manipur to Shillong and onward to other parts of India. In another heroin seizure, the ANTF and East Jaintia Hills district police seized nine soap boxes containing 91.86 grams of heroin from a notorious inter-state drug supplier, Isak L. Joute.
Based on reliable intelligence input about Joute’s travel plans to smuggle in heroin to Shillong, Kumar said the ANTF along with East Jaintia Hills district police set up a checkpoint at Byndihati village.
He said the ANTF sleuths intercepted a passenger bus bearing registration number
AS-01-JC-4999 enroute Silchar to Shillong and apprehended a 26-year-old Joute of Madanriting locality in Shillong under East Khasi Hills district.
Meanwhile, police have booked all the four accused under the NDPS Act, and investigation is underway to establish backward and forward linkages.