DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 11 (MExN): Troopers of the 29 Assam Rifles recovered a sizable cache of illicit IMFL from three different vehicles on the intervening night of November 10 and 11. According to the Superintendent of Excise and Prohibition, Dimapur, a total of 147 cases of assorted IMFL were recovered by the AR personnel from three vehicles during routine security frisking - one at Purana Bazaar and the other near New Field Check Post. Six persons, which included four women, were arrested from the spot and later handed over to the Excise Dimapur.
The two men were identified as Tep Bahadur Thapa (22 years) and Habib-ul-Ali (21 years), while the women were identified as Lily Poumei (22 years), Lelen Kullu (35 years), Kaini Mao (24 years), and Adaphro (37 years). The women were travelling in an Imphal-bound passenger bus (MN 01 1645), when the AR personnel stopped the bus for security checking at Purana Bazaar. Forty-nine cases of assorted IMFL, belonging to the women were found concealed underneath paper cartons meant for packing powdered milk.
The former two were seated in one of the two vans (NL 07 1407, NL 07 2475) loaded with IMFL when they were stopped near New Field Check Post. According to the Excise, a third person, said to be the driver of the second van managed to give the AR personnel a flip. The AR team was led by Naib Subedar Imritlal Diwakar.
Superintendent of Excise & Prohibition, Dimapur, Pitongse Sangtam further stated that an amount of more than Rs. one lakh eighty-thousand was exacted as penalty by the district Excise Superintendent’s office from NLTP Act defaulters during the months of September and October. Between October 31 and November 10 alone, about 20 cases of IMFL and 112 kilograms of ‘ganja’ were seized by its personnel, while seven persons were booked.
The two men were identified as Tep Bahadur Thapa (22 years) and Habib-ul-Ali (21 years), while the women were identified as Lily Poumei (22 years), Lelen Kullu (35 years), Kaini Mao (24 years), and Adaphro (37 years). The women were travelling in an Imphal-bound passenger bus (MN 01 1645), when the AR personnel stopped the bus for security checking at Purana Bazaar. Forty-nine cases of assorted IMFL, belonging to the women were found concealed underneath paper cartons meant for packing powdered milk.
The former two were seated in one of the two vans (NL 07 1407, NL 07 2475) loaded with IMFL when they were stopped near New Field Check Post. According to the Excise, a third person, said to be the driver of the second van managed to give the AR personnel a flip. The AR team was led by Naib Subedar Imritlal Diwakar.
Superintendent of Excise & Prohibition, Dimapur, Pitongse Sangtam further stated that an amount of more than Rs. one lakh eighty-thousand was exacted as penalty by the district Excise Superintendent’s office from NLTP Act defaulters during the months of September and October. Between October 31 and November 10 alone, about 20 cases of IMFL and 112 kilograms of ‘ganja’ were seized by its personnel, while seven persons were booked.
