Drugs, Foreign Cigarettes Worth Rs 29 Crore Smuggled From Myanmar Seized In Mizoram
NDTV
An Assam Rifles statement said smuggling of drugs from Myanmar is a major cause of concern for the state as well as the country
The Assam Rifles and other law-enforcement agencies in separate operations in Mizoram since Saturday night have seized heroin and foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 29 crore smuggled from Myanmar, and arrested six people, army sources said.
The Aizawl battalion of the Assam Rifles along with the anti-narcotics squad of Aizawl caught two drug-peddlers and recovered 436 soap cases containing 5 kg heroin worth Rs 25 crore at village Saichal in Mizoram's Saitual district on Saturday night.
The Mizoram Police arrested three people at Chalbawiha junction police checkpost in Champhai district and seized 1.3 kg of heroin valued at Rs 1.75 crore. The drug-peddlers were travelling in a van between Zokhawthar and Aizawl.
