GUWAHATI: In a joint operation conducted during the wee-hours of Thursday, custom officials along with the BSF personnel raided a house in Hmarkhaulen region of Lakhipur village of Cachar district in South Assam and seized 36,600 YABA tablets.
The approximate worth of the tablets is estimated to be around Rs. 3.66 crore in the international market.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Superintendent of Custom, Silchar approached Deputy Inspector General (Intelligence), BSF with information that YABA tablets (methamphetamine) and other psychotropic substances were kept in a house of a drug peddler in Lakhipur. A detailed operational was planned to nab the drug peddler and recover the psychotropic consignment.
During search, the drug peddler named Abul Hussain s/o Akoddar Ali, who is a resident of Hmarkhaulen village, was apprehended.
YABA tablet is a psychotropic substance normally manufactured in Myanmar and smuggled to Bangladesh and other part of India through drug peddlers of Karimganj and Cachar districts. It is a known fact that this tablet is playing havoc in the states of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Assam where youths are getting addicted to it.
