Shillong: East Jaintia Hills district police seized suspected heroin worth around ₹1.5 crore from an ambulance and arrested four people from Assam during a naka check early Monday.“During a regular ‘naka’ checking conducted at Damcherra, in the Kuliang area under Umkiang Police Patrol Post at 1 am today, the police detained an ambulance (Maruti Ecco), bearing registration number ML-13-B-1459, which was found transporting 27 plastic soap-size boxes containing suspected heroin weighing approximately 409.89 grams and its market value was around 1.5 crore,” East Jaintia Hills Superintendent of Police Shailendra Bamaniya said.The ambulance was travelling from Silchar to Guwahati through Meghalaya when it was intercepted, police said.“Four occupants of the vehicle were arrested. They were identified as Alom Hussain Laskar, Nazim Uddin Burbhuiya, Manir Hussain Mazumdar and Hashina Mamata Choudhury, who are all residents of Silchar, Assam,” the SP said in a statement.A case has been registered at Lumshnong Police Station under relevant sections of the NDPS Act, he said.“The bust at the entry point to Meghalaya from the East is part of a recent state-wide intensive police crackdown on transit crime networks,” Bamaniya said.
