Sunday, November 11, 2012

Myanmarese drug cartels find new route via Mizoram

Mizoram, which shares a 404-kilometre porous border with Myanmar, has become a favoured passage for cross-border ‘party drug’ cartels based in the neighbouring country. A recent spurt in seizures of pseudoephedrine-based drugs from Aizawl, majority of them from flight passengers, has proved this.

With the seizure of 60 kilograms (46, 5000 tablets) on Thursday, Lengpui Airport security police have seized 1,03,62,519 tablets of pseudoephedrine-based drugs from the state’s lone airport during the last two months and nine days.