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Kolkata: Two Manipur residents among three arrested with banned drugs

| @indiablooms | Feb 21, 2020, at 04:10 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Two Manipur residents among three drug peddlers have been arrested with banned narcotics worth Rs 2.5 crore from Kolkata's southern part while they were carrying the contraband goods in a car, police said today.

The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police laid a trap near Taratala nature park on Thursday evening following input and seized nearly 8 kilos of yaba tablets and arrested the trio.

Altogether 74,000 yaba tabs were stacked in the doors of the vehicle.

The arrested trio, identified as Syed Aamir Hossain, Ataur Rahman, are the residents of Thoubal district and Hanif Sheikh from Malda in West Bengal.

All three have been produced before a court in the city today for further remand. 

 

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