Manipur police seized  around 78,000 WY tablets worth Rs 1.5 crores from Telipati, Imphal East on Monday.

The seizure  followed the arrested of a drug peddler dentified as Gandhi Kalidas Debar@ Das (29) of Moreh Ward No. 5. He was driving a red Maruti Swift car bearing registration number WB-20AG/1894 when  a mobile team of  Imphal east  police commando unit spotted him near Kalimadir area. 
Superintendent of Police, Imphal east, Haobijam Jogeshchandra informed that a team of Imphal east commando while conducting random frisking and checking around Minuthong area arrested the said drug peddler at Telipati along with the contraband drugs after chasing the vehicle from Minuthong to Telipati.

After interrogating the drug peddler, he revealed that the recovered suspected WY tablets were handed over to him by one unknown person from Mayanmar where he was instructed to hand over the same to another person at Guwahati said Jogeshchandra.Informing that the frisking was a part of the drive undertaken under the campaign against drugs.  
He further appealed to the public to support the campaign taken up by Imphal east police. 

The suspected WY tablets is valued to be Rs  1.5 Crore approximately in the international market, the SP added.He also said that further investigation is going on to arrest the individual in Guwahati where the contrabands are supposed to be delivered.