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Drug peddlers held in city hotel

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SHILLONG: Three drug peddlers, two of whom are teenagers, have been arrested from a city hotel.
Police said around 9.45 pm on Saturday, a team of police raided JK International Hotel opposite Vishal Mega Mart in Police Bazar after they got information about the trio.
The three persons — identified as Monthan Laskar and Nicholas Brahma, both 19 years, and Uttam Boro (20) — were staying in Room No. 205.
) The police team also recovered four soap cases and four Golden tins filled with 38.34 gm of yellowish orange powder that was found to be heroin during preliminary test.
Earlier on the same day, a joint team of Madanrting police, traffic personnel and anti-narcotics task force had seized about 47 gm of heroin and three persons, who were travelling in a vehicle, were arrested after the car was intercepted in Mawblei.
A large number of people, including drug addicts and peddlers, have been arrested in the city in the last couple of years and police had admitted that Shillong is not just a transit point but a destination for drugs even as drugs abuse among youths has become a cause for worry.

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