SILCHAR- AGARTALA: Border Security Force (BSF) troopers and Assam Police officers on Tuesday detained one person in connection with the seizure of 9.477 kg of heroin valued at Rs 47.4 crore, in the Karimganj area, as per reports.
According to a Border Security Force spokesman, the joint team stopped a truck headed for Tripura close to New Karimganj Railway Station. Following a vehicle search, 764 soap cases carrying heroin were found in a hole cut out of the truck cabin's ceiling. The truck's driver, who was travelling from Mizoram, has been detained, the official continued. According to BSF officials, the medicines may have been smuggled out of Myanmar.
A meeting on "Drug Trafficking and National Security" was conducted on October 8 in Guwahati with the Chief Ministers, Chief Secretaries, and Director Generals of Police of the northeastern states.
During the conference, it was disclosed that since 2014, 4,888 drug dealers have been detained and drugs worth Rs 20,000 crore have been seized in the northeastern states.
Earlier on August 23, a similar incident had been reported in Aizawl, where the intelligence unit of the Mizoram police seized a huge consignment of heroin worth around Rs 13.4 crore in the international market at Kawnpui in Kolasib district near the Assam border.
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