Drugs & other narcotics substances worth of Rs 15 crores disposed in Nagaon

HARESWAR BORAH Nagaon, June 26: On occasion of the International day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, the district police administration ceremonially destroyed a huge quantity of drugs and other narcotics substances worth Rs 15 crores at Barhampur stadium today. Sources from district police administration here said the drugs as well as other narcotics substances which were destroyed, had been seized from drug dealers as well as other peddlers of the district during the last few months by Nagaon police. Superintendent of police, Nagaon Leena Doley, additional superintendent of police (headquarters) Dhruba Bora initiated the entire programme and destroyed the poisonous substances by rolling roller on it, sources said adding that during the programme, police disposed heroin 1.652 kilograms, brown sugar 69.33 gms, morphine 202 gms, 1,63,880 numbers of tablets, 7,948 bottles of cough syrups and 35.741 kilograms cannabis. The programme was done through the district drugs disposal committee, sources added further.