Drug smuggling worth crores, police made a big revelation

Aizawl. Ahead of the assembly elections, law enforcement agencies have seized various illegal items, including drugs worth Rs 36.32 crore, in a raid against drug and illicit trafficking. Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer Madhup Vyas said, “The seized drugs include heroin worth Rs 19.28 crore, foreign origin cigarettes worth Rs 8.84 crore, methamphetamine tablets worth Rs 4.28 crore, liquor worth Rs 1.16 crore and gelatin and cortex worth Rs 38 lakh.” Are included.” Police officials said most of the drugs and other contraband are smuggled from Myanmar, which shares a 510-km-long unfenced border with Mizoram.

The Election Commission, during and after its recent visit to Mizoram, asked the Central and State law enforcement to step up their efforts to prevent smuggling or illegally imported drugs, contraband substances from neighboring countries and arrest smugglers. Issued several instructions to agencies. The CEO told the media that apart from 3,000 state police personnel and 450 sections of CAPFs, 10 companies of Border Security Force, five companies of CRPF and SSB have reached Mizoram and are already at their places of deployment. The Election Commission has appointed 46 different categories of observers, including 21 general observers, to monitor the election process. Elections for the 40-member Mizoram Assembly will be held on November 7. According to security officials, Tripura’s border with Bangladesh and Mizoram and Manipur’s unfenced border with Myanmar have become an easy corridor for smuggling drugs into northeast India. Apart from various illegal drugs, foreign cigarettes, gold, arms and ammunition, exotic animals and betel nuts are often smuggled from Myanmar to the northeastern states.