From Bhupen Goswami
GUWAHATI : A senior Assam Rifles official told reporters today that a huge quantity of drugs and heroines are being supplied from Myanmar for the upcoming elections in five states. According to reports by security agencies, over 33 crore heroin and drugs have been sent from Myanmar by road earlier this month through the northeastern state in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi and Bihar. What is very surprising is that many leaders of the ruling party are joining this drugs mafia. According to intelligence inputs, a senior Assam Rifles official has alleged that the police officer has not been able to take any step against the leader of the ruling parties of Manipur and Uttar Pradesh when he joined the mafia.
It is difficult to guess how the smuggling of meater substances takes place in the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram. In this regard, a major operation has been taken by the search operation team of Assam Rifles deployed in the state recently. This battalion of Assam Rifles has seized heroin worth more than 1492 grams from a single smuggler. The smuggler has been arrested from Bulfekjwal area of Champhai district of the state. The value of the heroin recovered from it is said to be Rs 17.96 crore. According to information from a senior Assam Rifles official, a total of over Rs 18 crore heroin-drugs have been seized from Mizoram’s Indo-Myanmar border in the last two days and 5 drug suppliers have been arrested. A large quantity of drugs and heroines have been supplied from Myanmar for the upcoming elections to five states.
According to intelligence inputs, a senior assam rifles official has alleged that the police officer has not been able to take any steps against the drugs mafia after the ruling parties of Manipur and Uttar Pradesh joined the drugs mafia. A large quantity of dogs and heroines have been supplied from Myanmar for the upcoming elections to five states. Assam Rifles) said in a statement that in an operation in Champhai town near the Myanmar border in Mizoram, assam rifles troops recovered 751.2 grams of heroin worth Rs 3 crore. Acting on a specific tip-off, the Assam Rifles personnel launched an operation in Champhai town near myanmar border and recovered 751.2 grams of heroin worth Rs 3 crore. The statement said that one person has been detained on charges of possessing a banned substance. It said the operation was carried out jointly with representatives of the customs department. The statement said both the seized heroin and the accused have been handed over to the state excise and narcotics department.
Karbi Anglong police in the neighbouring state of Assam also seized suspected brown sugar worth Rs 14 lakh today. The said drugs were received from two persons on the basis of specific inputs about possible movement of drug traffickers, police said. The source said that based on the input, a check post was set up in The Panbari area of Diphu.Let us tell you that the Assam Rifles has kept an eye on the illegal activities going on here along with protecting the borders of the country in the north-eastern states. The force, along with the local police, continues to carry out such a search operation. At least two assam residents have been arrested for possessing heroin worth Rs 50 lakh near the Myanmar border in champhai town of eastern Mizoram. Champhai Superintendent of Police (SP) Lalrinpuia Varte said that the two accused, Ubaid Ullah and Zakir Hussain, were travelling alone in a maxi cab from Zokhawthar village on the Indo-Myanmar border, when the police acted on a special information at around 1 pm on Wednesday in Champhai town and stopped them when the accused broke the police barricades but the police team chased them and caught them.