23,000 Yaba tablets worth crores seized in Assam’s Cachar, one held

Guwahati (Assam) [India], September 9 (ANI): Assam Police on Tuesday seized a large consignment of Yaba tablets in Cachar district and apprehended one person in connection with the recovery, officials said.
Acting on specific source information, Cachar district police conducted an anti-narcotics operation at Shivpur under Lakhipur police station on Tuesday evening. During the operation, a truck bearing registration number AS-26AC-1763 was intercepted.
According to Cachar Senior Superintendent of Police Partha Protim Das, police recovered the suspected contraband from a specially concealed chamber inside the truck.
“Based on source input, an anti-narcotics operation was conducted by Cachar district police at Shivpur under Lakhipur police station on Tuesday evening,” Das said.
He said the search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 23,000 Yaba tablets, with the seized contraband weighing around 25 kg of methamphetamine.
The person apprehended has been identified as Sahir Hussain Choudhary, a resident of Gobindapur Part-II area in Cachar district.
"One truck bearing registration number AS-26AC-1763 was intercepted and led to the recovery of 230000 Yaba tablets (25 kg methamphetamine) from the secret chamber of the truck. One person was apprehended in this regard, namely Sahir Hussain Choudhary of Gobindapur Part-II area in Cachar district," Partha Protim Das said.
Police said legal action has been initiated in the case and further investigation is underway to establish the forward and backward linkages of the drug network. (ANI)