Latest Assam-Mizoram border News & Updates

Guwahati, June 28 (IANS) Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested after the Assam Rifles and Assam Police jointly seized narcotics valued at around Rs 5 crore during an anti-drug operation along the Assam-Mizoram border in Cachar district, officials said on Sunday. According to officials, the joint operation was carried out late on Saturday in the Lailapur area of Cachar district in Assam based on specific intelligence inputs about the movement of narcotics through the inter-state border.As the s…

New Delhi/Aizawl, June 4 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted searches at multiple locations in Mizoram as part of its investigation into an alleged Myanmar areca nut (Burmese betel nut) smuggling and money laundering racket involving proceeds of crime estimated at over Rs 970 crore, the central probe agency said. According to a statement by the probe agency, the ED Aizawl Sub-Zonal office conducted searches under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, at n…