Tuesday, February 4, 2014

A Myanmarese woman arrested with 59 gram heroin

A Myanmarese woman has been arrested with about 59 grams of heroin, worth about Rs two lakh, from the Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai, officials said today.

Commissioner of state Excise and Narcotics L Hmunsanga today said the 40-year-old Myanmarese woman Neihzachiang, now residing in Champhai and originally from Chawngu village in Myanmar, was arrested last night with the narcotics.

Neihzachiang reportedly told her interrogators that she smuggled heroin from Myanmar to sell in Champhai.

The drugs were concealed inside four soap boxes.

She was booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.