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Guwahati, Dec 22 (PTI) Narcotics worth Rs 20 crore has been seized and a person arrested in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, an operation was launched by the Special Task Force (STF) under the supervision of IGP Parthasarathi Mahanta at Silcoori Road that led to the seizure of Yaba tablets and heroin from a person who was moving in a motorcycle in the early hours of Sunday. Also Read | India Can Never Permit Others to Have Veto on Its Choices, Says EAM S Jaishankar.
The seizure included 60,000 yaba tablets and 125 grams of heroin, Mahanta told PTI. Yaba is a combination of stimulants, the most important being methamphetamine and caffeine. It has many aliases like Thai name 'crazy medicine', 'madness drug' or 'Nazi speed'.
Also Read | Mohali Building Collapse: NDRF, Indian Army Continue Rescue Operation After Multi-Storey Under-Construction Building Collapses in Punjab (Watch Videos). The police arrested a person, identified as Sahil Ahmed Laskar, and seized the motorcycle. The IGP said that the street price of the seized narcotics was estimated to be around Rs 20 crore.
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