Guwahati: Guwahati municipal police arrested two drug dealers and confiscated a sizable quantity of illicit heroin from their possession.
According to reports, Chandmari police arrested Mantu Rahman, a peddler who was out and about distributing drugs in his scooter with the registration number “AS 01 EA 4306.” Police searched the scooter’s luggage compartment and found 2 sachets of heroin there.
Later, when police conducted a raid on his Ganesh Nagar home they found two further packets and 60 heroin bottles.
Police added that his brother Mintu Rahman was also found to be involved and was taken into custody.
It is estimated that the seized drugs weigh about 55 grammes in total.
Meanwhile, a case under the NDPS Act has been registered against the duo.
An investigation to unearth further linkages is on.