Customs staff accompanied by Assam Rifles personnel late on Tuesday night seized 18,000 tablets of meth-amphetamine worth an estimated Rs 1.8 crores and arrested a 60-year-old Myanmar national.
Thangkhanpau, a resident of Tiddim township in Myanmar’s Chin State, has been booked under the NDPS Act and related customs laws after he was arrested at Zokhawthar village, on the Indo-Myanmar international border crossing at Mizoram’s Champhai district.
Myanmar, part of the Golden Triangle, is one of the largest producers of meth-amphetamine in the world. The drug, addiction to which has no known treatment, is mainly produced there by ethnic militias and drug cartels using raw material sourced largely from India.