GUWAHATI: The Assam Police on Wednesday, July 6, accomplished a major drug bust by intercepting nearly 8,300 cough syrup bottles that arrived through a Tripura-bound truck in the Churaibari area in Assam's Karimganj district
The alleged perpetrators were identified as Mohammad Faraz and Samir Ahmed. Both the individuals hail from Uttar Pradesh.
According to the Karimganj District Police, the truck was on its way towards Tripura from Ghaziabad.
Niranjan Das, Officer-in-Charge of the Churaibari Police Post said that the Police team on Wednesday stopped the truck for a routine check at the Churaibari area along the Assam-Tripura border, which was nearby the town of Ghaziabad.
"During checking, we had recovered 26 boxes of cough syrup and about 8300 bottles from the truck. We have arrested the driver and co-driver of the truck and registered a case under the Section of NDPS Act," Das commented while addressing the media.
It is one of many such recent drug busts which were conducted along the Assam-Tripura Border.