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KHONSA, 14 Jul:<\/strong> The Khonsa battalion of the Assam Rifles (AR), in conjunction with the\u00a0 Tirap police on Thursday apprehended “a suspected woman operative affiliated with illicit groups with suspected heroin-based narcotic substance,” the AR informed in a release.<\/p>\n The AR and police team carried out multiple searches at the same time, and suspected heroin-based narcotic substances worth Rs 4 lakhs were recovered, along with Rs 70,000 in cash, “which was likely kept to be handed over to banned outfits,” the release stated.<\/p>\n “The operative was carrying the narcotics procured from the border areas via Burmese operatives, raising money for underground groups,” it said.<\/p>\n “The arrest of the individual led to unfolding of a narco-funding racket that is being run by antinational elements,” the release said.<\/p>\n “Drug trade has increased to be a major nuisance in the region. It is speculated that drug trade is part of a larger narco-terror racket that is fuelling the fledgling insurgency by sale of high-end drugs in the region,” it added.<\/p>\n “Since extortion activities have plummeted and the population support has been waning, the antinational elements are devising new ways to fuel insurgency in the region. The security forces have taken a stand to shut down the narco-terrorism nexus and the apprehension of these individuals is a major setback to the nefarious designs of the insurgents,” the release stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KHONSA, 14 Jul: The Khonsa battalion of the Assam Rifles (AR), in conjunction with the\u00a0 Tirap police on Thursday apprehended “a suspected woman operative affiliated with illicit groups with suspected heroin-based narcotic substance,” the AR informed in a release. The AR and police team carried out multiple searches at the same time, and suspected heroin-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220413","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\/220413","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=220413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}