One arrested with illegal tablets worth Rs 7 lakh

KOLKATA: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Eastern region, has arrested a person with 1,370 Yaba tablets on Wednesday. The tablets were recovered by the BSF border outpost at Hakimpur in North 24-Parganas. The cost of the seized drugs is worth Rs 7 lakh.

The NCB officials said they were informed by the BSF 76 battalion about a person who was detained at Hakimpur border outpost with a huge quantity of suspicious tablets on Wednesday. The BSF officials suspected those tablets could be drugs and informed the NCB.

Upon receiving the news, a team from the NCB went to Hakimpur and identified the tablets as Yaba. The NCB officials also informed that the tablets contain methamphetamine, commonly used as a recreational drug.

According to the sources, the tablets had come from Myanmar via Manipur. It was destined to reach Bangladesh. The BSF personnel raided a house at Hakimpur on Wednesday suspecting something unusual going on at the said house. While searching the house, the BSF jawans found coloured tablets that aroused their suspicion.

The BSF jawans detained the owner of the house, Kamaluddin Khan and seized the tablets and brought him to their border outpost. Later, the NCB officials went there and identified the tablets as Yaba. Soon after the tablets were identified, Khan was handed over to the NCB officials along with the tablets. He was produced before Barasat court and is being remanded to NCB custody.