Drugs Worth Over Rs 3 Cr Seized in Guwahati, 4 Held

Guwahati: Drugs worth more than Rs 3 crore have been recovered from Assam 's Guwahati and four people, including a woman, have been arrested in this connection, police on Wednesday.

Guwahati police, in a series of posts on X, said that narcotics substances like heroin and 'Yaba' tablets were recovered from a guest house in Hatigaon area of city.

"An EGPD team from Dispur PS seized 10,000 'Yaba' tablets, 11 grams of suspected heroin in 5 soap boxes after it carried out a raid," it ded.

team from East Guwahati Police District (EGPD) also nabbed four peddlers, including a 40-year-old woman, and seized four mobile phones along with Rs 5,000 in cash from ir possession, it said.

A senior official said that total value of seized drugs will be over Rs 3.08 crore as per Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) standards.

'Yaba' or 'crazy medicine' in Thai is a tablet form of a mixture of methamphetamine (a powerful and dictive stimulant) and caffeine.