Myanmar national arrested for possession of drugs worth Rs 1.8 crore in Mizoram

The accused has been booked under the NDPS Act and related customs laws after he was arrested at a village on the Indo-Myanmar international border crossing.

By: Express News Service
Aizawl | August 12, 2015 08:09 PM IST

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Customs staff accompanied by Assam Rifles personnel late on Tuesday night seized 18,000 tablets of meth-amphetamine worth an estimated Rs 1.8 crores and arrested a 60-year-old Myanmar national.

Thangkhanpau, a resident of Tiddim township in Myanmar’s Chin State, has been booked under the NDPS Act and related customs laws after he was arrested at Zokhawthar village, on the Indo-Myanmar international border crossing at Mizoram’s Champhai district.

Myanmar, part of the Golden Triangle, is one of the largest producers of meth-amphetamine in the world. The drug, addiction to which has no known treatment, is mainly produced there by ethnic militias and drug cartels using raw material sourced largely from India.

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