{"id":208519,"date":"2023-01-09T00:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=208519"},"modified":"2023-01-09T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:19:34","slug":"heroin-worth-rs-18-crore-seized-two-arrested-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/heroin-worth-rs-18-crore-seized-two-arrested-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin worth Rs 18 crore seized, two arrested in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DIPHU, 8 Jan:<\/strong> Two persons were arrested after heroin worth about Rs 18 crore was seized from a vehicle in Assam&#8217;s Karbi Anglong district on Sunday, a senior police officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A joint team of the Assam Police and the CRPF made the arrests and seizure during a joint operation, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karbi Anglong SP Sanjib Kumar Saikia said, &#8220;A check point was set up at Dilai Tiniali, based on specific information of attempt at drugs smuggling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A pickup van was stopped at around 10:30 am and during checking, heroin weighing 3.5 kgs was seized packed in 286 soap cases. The value of the contraband is estimated to be around Rs 18 crore, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two persons from Barpeta district were arrested in this connection, the SP added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saikia said the vehicle was coming from Manipur and further investigation is on to ascertain where the consignment was headed for. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIPHU, 8 Jan: Two persons were arrested after heroin worth about Rs 18 crore was seized from a vehicle in Assam&#8217;s Karbi Anglong district on Sunday, a senior police officer said. A joint team of the Assam Police and the CRPF made the arrests and seizure during a joint operation, the officer said. Karbi Anglong [&hellip;]<\/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-208519","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\/208519","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=208519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}