Thoubal district police apprehended a woman in possession of 515 grams of Brown Sugar from Waheng Leikai, Jiribam Parking, Imphal West on Friday.
Acting on a tip off from 16 Assam Rifles (AR) that some contraband items were being transported from Imphal towards Jiribam by a person, a joint team of Commando Unit Thoubal led by O. Wangkhomba, MPS, Additional SP(Ops),Thoubal assisted by Inspector K. Nitaranjan Singh, Office-in-Charge Commando Unit Thoubal and Havildar Kh. Suresh Singh including women police and under the supervision of Jogeshchandra Haobijam (IPS), Senior Superintendent of Police, Thoubal District conducted frisking and checking at Waheng Leikai, Jiribam Parking area.
The team detained a lady passenger in a suspicious manner for verification and checked her red and black colour school bag and found 40 soap cases containing suspected Heroin (Brown Sugar).
The arrested woman is identified as 33-year-old Heshi, wife of Dinglen Doungel of Tamenglong West, (Tousem) Tamenglong District.
The arrested woman along with the seized articles were handed over to Imphal PS for taking further necessary legal action after a case has been registered at Imphal PS.
