Aizawl: The Assam Rifles, along with other law-enforcing agencies have seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets and heroin valued at around Rs 37 crore in Mizoram, officials said on Friday.
A Defence spokesman said that acting on specific intelligence, a joint operation by Assam Rifles and Narcotics Control Bureau was launched on Thursday night at bordering Zokhawthar in eastern Mizoram’s Champhai district. After a thorough search of the suspected area, the security personnel recovered 642 grams of heroin and 10.44 kg of methamphetamine tablets valued approximately Rs 37 crore. Sensing the presence of the Assam Rifles troops, the drug peddlers managed to escape. The recovered drugs have been handed over to the Narcotics Control Bureau for taking further legal actions under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985. The latest drugs seizure was done within a week after the recovery of methamphetamine tablets and heroin valued at over Rs 113.36 crore in the same Zokhawthar areas in Mizoram on July 11.
The methamphetamine tablets, which are most popular among drug users, are a crystal-like drug that severely damages the brain and heart. (IANS)
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