Through PTI
AIZAWL: A 27-year-old Myanmar nationwide was once arrested in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl after heroin price Rs 5 lakh was once recovered from his ownership, police stated on Sunday.
Performing on a tip-off, a workforce from the Bawnkawn Police Station apprehended the individual on Saturday and seized 10 grams of the narcotics substance.
The accused hails from Tahan within the neighbouring nation and has been booked beneath quite a lot of sections of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Elements Act, 1985 and the Foreigners Act, the state police stated in a remark.
The police body of workers were making efforts to curb smuggling actions within the state, it stated.
Just about 40 Myanmar nationals were arrested between January and September this yr in drug-related circumstances, a senior police officer stated.
The Mizoram Police had on October 14 seized 6.8 kilograms of heroin price over Rs 34 crore from the ownership of a drug peddler on the new Champhai village close to the Myanmar border.
The seizure was once believed to be the largest drug haul lately within the northeastern state.
Significantly, altogether 30,401 other people from Myanmar have crossed the global border and brought shelter in Mizoram after the neighbouring nation’s army ousted the elected govt of Aung San Suu Kyi there in February remaining yr, state House Minister Lalchamliana knowledgeable the meeting remaining month.
The vast majority of the refugees reside in reduction camps, whilst others are accommodated via their native kin and a few reside in rented properties.
Six Mizoram districts -Champhai, Siaha, Lawngtlai, Serchhip, Hnahthial and Saitual- percentage a 510 km-long global border with Myanmar’s Chin state.
AIZAWL: A 27-year-old Myanmar nationwide was once arrested in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl after heroin price Rs 5 lakh was once recovered from his ownership, police stated on Sunday.
Performing on a tip-off, a workforce from the Bawnkawn Police Station apprehended the individual on Saturday and seized 10 grams of the narcotics substance.
The accused hails from Tahan within the neighbouring nation and has been booked beneath quite a lot of sections of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Elements Act, 1985 and the Foreigners Act, the state police stated in a remark.
The police body of workers were making efforts to curb smuggling actions within the state, it stated.
Just about 40 Myanmar nationals were arrested between January and September this yr in drug-related circumstances, a senior police officer stated.
The Mizoram Police had on October 14 seized 6.8 kilograms of heroin price over Rs 34 crore from the ownership of a drug peddler on the new Champhai village close to the Myanmar border.
The seizure was once believed to be the largest drug haul lately within the northeastern state.
Significantly, altogether 30,401 other people from Myanmar have crossed the global border and brought shelter in Mizoram after the neighbouring nation’s army ousted the elected govt of Aung San Suu Kyi there in February remaining yr, state House Minister Lalchamliana knowledgeable the meeting remaining month.
The vast majority of the refugees reside in reduction camps, whilst others are accommodated via their native kin and a few reside in rented properties.
Six Mizoram districts -Champhai, Siaha, Lawngtlai, Serchhip, Hnahthial and Saitual- percentage a 510 km-long global border with Myanmar’s Chin state.