Smuggled from Myanmar, drugs valued at Rs 45 crore seized in Mizoram

The Assam Rifles on Tuesday seized drugs valued at around Rs 45 crore in the Mizoram's Champhai district.

A drug smuggler, a resident of Champhai district, was also arrested in connection with the recovery of the contraband.

Sources said that acting on secret information, the para-military troopers accompanied by Mizoram police recovered 1.50 lakh highly addictive methamphetamine tablets (weighing 17.085 kg) valued at Rs 45 crore from an abandoned house at Zokawthar, bordering Myanmar.


The Election Commission issued several directives to the Central and state law-enforcing agencies to further intensify their efforts to prevent smuggling from the neighbouring countries or to seize the illegally imported drugs, contrabands and nab the smugglers.