Overview
- Acting on a specific tip, the Assam Police Special Task Force and Kamrup district police stopped a bus at Amingaon near Guwahati.
- The team searched the vehicle bearing registration AS 06 AC 7555 and found a secret compartment built into the bus.
- Officers recovered 197 soap boxes holding 2.561 kg of heroin and also seized 8 kg of opium from the hideaway.
- Police arrested five suspects from the bus, identified as Abdul Latif, Md Taher Ali, Md Islamuddin, Md Latip, and Md Ajmer, all residents of Manipur.
- Investigators say the consignment started from Kwakta in Manipur and are probing the network, reflecting a wider push under Assam’s anti-drug drive to cut off routes that move narcotics through the state.