Guwahati: Law enforcement agencies in Mizoram have arrested three individuals, including a Myanmar national, for possessing 128 grams of heroin valued at over Rs 2 lakh in the grey market and for smuggling areca nuts worth Rs 97.85 lakh in three separate operations.
The operations along the India-Myanmar border in Champhai district were conducted by a joint team comprising the Assam Rifles, Mizoram Excise and Narcotics Department, Customs Preventive Force, and the Criminal Investigation Department’s (Crime) Special Narcotics Police Station.
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The trio has been identified as Nangkhawkhupa (30) and Ruatfela (36), both residents of Aizawl, and LT Siama (39), a resident of Myanmar.
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The consignment of narcotics and contraband items, along with the three accused, were later handed over to the Excise and Narcotics Department in Champhai for further legal proceedings.
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India shares a 1,643-km-long border with Myanmar, of which Mizoram accounts for a 510-km-long stretch.
According to the Mizoram police, traffickers frequently use the state’s porous international borders to smuggle various contraband items from Myanmar into India.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on February 6 this year announced that the Centre had decided to fence the entire stretch of the international border with Myanmar.