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Manipur: Drugs worth Rs 24 crore seized in two separate incidents

First Published: 21st August, 2019 20:55 IST

The police in the border town of Moreh has seized drugs worth Rs 24 crore in two separate incidents. Contraband weighing 9 kilograms were seized from the possession of a

The police in the border town of Moreh has seized drugs worth Rs 24 crore in two separate incidents.

Contraband weighing 9 kilograms were seized from the possession of a man named Khamboumang.

In another seizure, brown sugar weighing 8 kg were seized from the possession of a person named Kumar Gurung, who was transporting the contraband in a vehicle.

It is worth mentioning here that it was just a couple of days back that in the biggest ever drug haul in the Northeastern region, drugs worth over Rs 166 crores were seized and a drug manufacturing factory was busted in Manipur.

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