The police will destroy massive quantity of drugs seized from different parts of Hojai and Nagaon districts of Assam on Sunday.

The police had seized a huge quantity of drugs including heroin, brown sugar, morphine, many addictive tablets and cough syrups in several operations launched across the two districts recently.

According to reports, the police seized 8.852 kgs of heroin, 69.33 grams brown sugar, 603.881 kgs of ganja, 1325 bottles of cough syrup, 2,01,558 addictive tablets, 202 grams of morphine and 1.028 kgs of opium from both the districts.

According to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, (NDPS) 1985, the drugs will be burnt separately in the two districts under the direction of the Pollution Control Board.