By Our Correspondent
IMPHAL, Nov 21: Security forces arrested three alleged drug dealers from Manipur’s Imphal East district while destroying illicit poppy cultivation in Kangpokpi district, police said on Friday.
Three drug dealers were arrested from Hatta Gollapati in Imphal East district on Wednesday, police said adding they were identified as Ibemma (46), MD Afzal (28) and Shahabuddin (51).
Unaccounted cash of Rs. Two lakhs, 91 empty bottles used for carrying brown sugar were recovered from their possession.
Meanwhile, a joint team of Manipur Police, AR and CRPF on Thursday detected three separate areas of poppy cultivation, spread across nearly 10 acres, in the interiors of Songlung village in Kangpokpi district.
The illicit poppy cultivation along with 3 farmhuts were also destroyed and burnt, police added.
