DRI busts narcotics racket, seizes 6.5 kg opium paste

Busting a narcotics racket stretching from the northeast to Jammu and Kashmir, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence sleuths have seized over 6 kg opium paste from two bus passengers near West Bengal's Siliguri town, a statement said on Friday.

Acting on intelligence inputs, the DRI officers of Siliguri Regional Unit apprehended two persons named Jyoti Sharma - based in Siliguri - and Amarjit Singh, based in Jammu, near Siliguri from a bus coming from Guwahati early on Wednesday.

Seven packets which contained dark-coloured opium in paste form, a scheduled drug under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, were recovered from them, a DRI release said.

The total weight of the recovered contraband is 6.5 kg. The apprehended persons have admitted to have received the material at Guwahati with directions to hand it over to some person at Jammu, the DRI said.

The recovered opium paste and the apprehended persons have been arrested under the NDPS Act and sent to judicial custody.
IANS