SILCHAR: In a major anti-narcotics operation, police seized 2,30,000 Yaba tablets weighing 24.589 kg from a secret chamber of a truck at Panch Mile in the Udharbond Bypass area of Cachar district.

Acting on specific source information, the police intercepted the truck under Udharbond Police Station limits and recovered the tablets concealed inside a specially made compartment of the vehicle.

Two persons were apprehended in connection with the seizure. They were identified as Sachin Tomor, 28, son of Mukesh Tomor, a resident of Jasrana in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, and Rohit Yadav, 21, son of Kamalesh Yadav, a resident of Borapur under Motijheel Police Station in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

According to the initial information, the truck had arrived from a neighbouring state. Legal action has been initiated, and an investigation is underway to trace the forward and backward linkages of the suspected drug trafficking network.