Police has seized huge quantity of heroin and arrested a woman from Nagaon district, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Delhi Police and Assam Police seized the contraband weighing 23.5 kg from the house of a woman in Bengenaati village, Nagaon, Superintendent of Police, S Raimedhi said on Wednesday.
The SP said following intelligence inputs, Delhi Police apprehended a person, identified as Dhanjit Gupta, in Delhi and following his interrogation, an operation was launched in Bengenaati village where the contraband was stored in the house of the woman.
The woman has been arrested and efforts are on to trace the other members of the illegal drug racket.
The drugs were suspected to be sent to different states of North East and even Myanmar via Nagaland, police said.
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