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KHONSA, 31 Jan:<\/strong> A joint team of the Tirap police’s anti-drug squad (ADS) and the 36th Bn CRPF here apprehended a drug peddler and recovered 6.04 grams of suspected heroin from his possession during an operation on Monday.<\/p>\n Based on specific intelligence, the ADS, led by Inspector O Rongrang, and one section of the 36th Bn CrPF, under the supervision of Khonsa PS OC Inspector W Kamhua, launched an operation in the intervening night of 30 and 31 January.<\/p>\n The joint team cordoned off the suspected house, located in Engineering Colony here, and set up a decoy.<\/p>\n The suspected peddler, identified as H Besai, sensed the presence of the joint team and tried to flee, but was overpowered.<\/p>\n On searching the peddler in the presence of the magistrate, suspected heroin (6.04 gms), a plastic container containing traces of suspected heroin, and Rs 55,240 in cash were found and seized from his possession.<\/p>\n As per the police’s initial investigation, the peddler is the gram panchayat chairperson of a village in Tirap. The police have also informed the Tirap DPDO.<\/p>\n It was revealed during initial investigation that drug consumers used to visit Besai’s residence and purchase drugs. In most cases, they consumed drugs at the residence itself.<\/p>\n A case under the NDPS Act has been registered and an investigation is on. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KHONSA, 31 Jan: A joint team of the Tirap police’s anti-drug squad (ADS) and the 36th Bn CRPF here apprehended a drug peddler and recovered 6.04 grams of suspected heroin from his possession during an operation on Monday. Based on specific intelligence, the ADS, led by Inspector O Rongrang, and one section of the 36th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183019","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=183019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}