Additional Commissioner of Police (SR) Manoj C said the smugglers were arrested in Guwahati and later in Delhi while transporting a consignment of opium from Manipur to supply the same in the national capital and Rajasthan.
The two persons, hailing from Manipur, were travelling to Delhi, the GRP said.
After laboratory testing, the officials said that the seized substance is the pure form of opium. It is possible to make morphine, Phensedyl (codeine) and heroin with it.
The consumption survey indicates that about 6 lakh persons, of which 90% are in the age group of 17 to 33 years, are using various types of drugs.
Kashmir has also become a money-making machine - as seen from numerous fund-raising campaigns being run on Launch Good and other fund-raising platforms. As explained in the DisInfo Lab reports on Covid Aid Scam, these organisations not only do not provide any details about their fund's utilisations but are also connected with radical Islamists and terrorist groups.
Similarly, by contacting the nodal officers of other states, about 16860 residents of Haryana, who were stuck in other states, were also brought to Haryana by buses, the DGP said.
Punjab Police said these arrests have exposed a module that was involved in smuggling opium and the potent date-rape drug ketamine.
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