Huge Drug Bust! DRI Foils Rs 52 Crore Meth Smuggling Plot
DRI Foils Rs 52.67 Crore Meth Smuggling Plot Near Aizawl
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) delivered a major blow to cross-border drug trafficking, seizing 52.67 kg of methamphetamine tablets worth Rs 52.67 crore on April 11 in a late-night sting on Aizawl’s outskirts.
The operation exposed a cunning smuggling tactic, with 53 brick-sized packets of the narcotic—marked “3030 Export Only” and “999” with diamond symbols—stashed within the tarpaulin folds of a 12-wheeler truck. NDPS field tests confirmed the orange-pink tablets as methamphetamine, or ‘crystal meth.’
The Nagaland-registered truck, intercepted en route to Tripura from Zokhawthar, a volatile Indo-Myanmar border town, carried no declared cargo.
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It had previously hauled cement from Meghalaya to Champhai before picking up the drugs in Zokhawthar. The driver and assistant were arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, with initial probes pointing to Myanmar as the source.
This bust adds to the DRI’s 148.5 kg of methamphetamine seizures in the Northeast this year, underscoring the region’s vulnerability to smuggling via porous borders. Zokhawthar remains a key conduit, fueling drug flows to states like Tripura.
The DRI’s relentless crackdowns signal a tough stance against trafficking syndicates, with investigations ongoing to unravel the network behind this audacious operation, aimed at choking the supply chain threatening India’s Northeast.
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