Meghalaya: Cops detained drug traffickers with heroin worth Rs 14 cr

In Meghalaya’s Ri-Bhoi area on Friday, three people were reportedly detained and heroin worth Rs 14 crore seized from their possession.

The group was detained by police early in the morning as they were taking a bus from Manipur to Shillong, according to the police.

Two kilogrammes of heroin concealed in 158 soap boxes were found when the bus on a highway near the Mandarin-Saiden village was examined. Three residents of the Bishnupur region of Manipur, Rashijuddin, Saddam Hussain, and Iqbal Hussain, were detained.

DGP L R Bishnoi and the police force were praised by Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma for the successful seizure.

158 boxes of high-grade heroin worth Rs 14 crore that came from Manipur and were headed to Shillong were seized by Ri-Bhoi police after they diligently pursued a tip-off and detained three notorious traffickers from Manipur, said CM Sangma on Twitter.

“I hope this ignites the performance of cops on the frontlines, even more,” he added.

Chinese mafia groups are frequently using Myanmar as a base for their illegal operations, endangering India’s internal security and particularly the northeastern states of the country.

An aspect of the issue, like the expanding drug trade, which is unquestionably connected to the financing of terrorists, is quite comparable to India’s struggles on the western front.

The drugs seized and recovered from such smugglers were destroyed between January and September 2022 by the NCB Guwahati (11,000 kg), state agencies in Assam (8,000 kg), Tripura (12,000 kg), Arunachal Pradesh (4,000 kg), Meghalaya (1,600 kg), Manipur (1,900 kg), Mizoram (1,500 kg), and Nagaland (398 kg).

Gold, drugs, firearms, and other illegal goods entering India over the porous border in the past had an impact on north-east India. Meghalaya and Assam served as conduits for the transportation of some of the loot, primarily drugs, to Bangladesh.