Guwahati : A team of Narcotics Affairs and Borders (NAB) had arrested four persons, including an IRB Rifleman and a Burmese national and recovered around 1kg heroine in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district.
According to the reports, based on intelligence input, the NAB team had launched with the help of Manipur police at Nungourok village near Pallel in Tengnoupal district and intercepted an Alto car.
The NAB personnel had recovered 1 kg heroine from the vehicle and arrested four persons who carried the drugs from neighbouring country Myanmar.
Among the arrested persons, one has been identified as 50-year-old Aung Pyi is a Burmese national.
The NAB team also arrested an IRB Rifleman identified as Mopung Khulpuwa, Theophilus Kabai (40 yrs) and Hirom Inao Meitei (48 yrs), Lab Assistant Horticulture and Soil Conservation Department, Government of Manipur.
The team had seized the vehicle, four mobile phones, one Kenbo bike.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
