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NAMSAI, 4 Jun:<\/strong> The police here in Namsai district have apprehended two drug peddlers in the last two days and seized a whopping 480 grams of contraband substances from their possession.<\/p>\n On Friday, the police received information that one Bipul Duwarah (39), suspected to be a drug peddler, was proceeding towards Nongkhon village in Namsai district from Bordumsa, Assam, on a motorcycle with contraband substances.<\/p>\n Accordingly, a naka was placed at Nongkhon Charali by SI AN Singh, Head Constables JP Tiwari and AK Pandey, and Constable O Tayeng, along with Mahadevpur EAC NL Naam.<\/p>\n Duwarah was intercepted at the naka, and upon search the police recovered a large polythene pouch, weighing approximately 400 grams, that contained a pink-coloured powdery substance, suspected to be brown sugar.<\/p>\n “The value of the contraband substance in the local market is approximately Rs 4,00,000,” the police informed.<\/p>\n A case u\/s 21 (c) NDPS Act has been registered at the Mahadevpur police station for further investigation. Duwarah has been arrested and the recovered contraband substance along with the motorcycle has been seized.<\/p>\n In another incident, on 3 June, a police team led by Namsai Police Station OC Inspector CB Rai, along with the police station’s ‘ready party’ conducted a raid in the house of one Dimbaswar Chetia and recovered approximately 80 grams of opium smeared in cloth.<\/p>\n A case u\/s 17 (b) NDPS Act has been registered. The accused has been arrested and the recovered contraband substance has been seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAMSAI, 4 Jun: The police here in Namsai district have apprehended two drug peddlers in the last two days and seized a whopping 480 grams of contraband substances from their possession. On Friday, the police received information that one Bipul Duwarah (39), suspected to be a drug peddler, was proceeding towards Nongkhon village in Namsai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}