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7,000 Myanmar-made meth tablets seized

Almost 7,000 methamphetamine tablets belonging to a brand considered the best produced in Myanmar

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Almost 7,000 methamphetamine tablets belonging to a brand considered the best produced in Myanmar were seized in Aizawl on Wednesday afternoon. It is the largest recorded seizure in Mizoram so far.

All the pills,most of them reddish-orange in color,were marked WY,a brand the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime considers the most popular,of the highest quality and the most expensive meth pills produced in Myanmar with which Mizoram shares more than 400 km of unfenced border.

Wednesdays seizure was executed around 4 pm at Aizawls Chaltlang neighborhood during a joint operation of Border Security Force,state CID Special Narcotics division and the Central Anti-Drug Squad of the Central Young Mizo Association CYMA.

The CYMA is a voluntary organisation awarded the first National Awards for outstanding services in the field of Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance Drugs Abuse by President Pranab Mukherjee on June 26.

The joint operation caught P C Lallura of Zokhawthar town in Champhai district,red-handed with 6,827 meth tablets estimated to cost Rs 8,87,510.

Lallura was ferrying the drugs in his blue Maruti Zen.

 

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