Drugs Found In Stuffed Toy, 2 Women Among 3 Held In Separate Assam Ops

With the Assam police tightening their grip around the narcotics trade, smugglers seem to be improvising.

The Assam police today took into custody three persons, including two women, for their involvement in the narcotic drugs trade. The cops recovered considerable amounts of the contraband items, including some hidden inside a stuffed toy -- a sign that the smugglers are improvising. At Dhemaji, a team led by the officer-in-charge of the Dimow police station, about 48 kilometres from the district headquarters, arrested Zakia Begum at her residence in the Dihajan area. They seized 125.85 gram of heroin stuffed inside a soft toy in Ecuadorian drug cartel style. "We had received inputs about her being part of a smuggling network and that they have changed their modus operandi to transporting products stuffed in soft toys. We recovered several vials from her, which indicates she probably receives them inside toys and sells them in vials," a police official said.