{"id":172359,"date":"2021-09-22T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172359"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:45:02","slug":"heroin-worth-rs-8-crore-seized-in-assam-two-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/heroin-worth-rs-8-crore-seized-in-assam-two-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin worth Rs 8 crore seized in Assam, two held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diphu\/Guwahati, Sep 21 (PTI) Two persons were on Tuesday arrested in Assam&#8217;s Karbi Anglong district with a consignment of 1.5 kg heroin, estimated to be worth nearly Rs 8 crore in the international market, a day after another batch of 412 gm of the same drug was confiscated in the area, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A couple from Nagaland, Besii Mao and Kaiha Mao, was apparently delivering the contraband from Manipur to Guwahati, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acting on a tip-off, the police launched an operation at Khatkati in Bokajan police station area and got hold of the contraband hidden in 80 soap boxes, Sub-Divisional Police Officer John Das told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The couple, who was travelling with an infant, was taken into custody, he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking to Twitter, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulated the Assam Police for back-to-back drug haul in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In a major operation this morning @karbianglongpolice has recovered 1 kg +heroin at Khatkhati. Kudos to @assampolice. Keep up the good work,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diphu\/Guwahati, Sep 21 (PTI) Two persons were on Tuesday arrested in Assam&#8217;s Karbi Anglong district with a consignment of 1.5 kg heroin, estimated to be worth nearly Rs 8 crore in the international market, a day after another batch of 412 gm of the same drug was confiscated in the area, a police officer said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172359","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=172359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}