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BSF seizes 7000 Yaba tablets in Assam’s Karimganj

| @indiablooms | Sep 11, 2019, at 09:49 pm

Guwahati, Sept 11 (IBNS): The troops of Border Security Force (BSF) seized huge quantity of contraband drugs and apprehended a person in Assam’s Karimganj district along Indo-Bangladesh border last night.

According to the reports, the BSF personnel deployed at Mubarakpur Border Outpost apprehended a person named Numan Ahmed and seized around 7000 numbers of Yaba tablet weighing about 720 grams and worth of Rs 35 lakh in possession from him.

A police official of Karimganj district said that the nabbed person was trying to carry the contraband drugs to Bangladesh by crossing the international border.

The BSF personnel handed over him and the seizure items to Karimganj district police for further legal action.

“The BSF personnel had apprehended the person near Mubarakpur camp and seized 720 grams Yaba tablets in possession from him. The nabbed person was identified as Numan Ahmed,” the police officer said.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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