What happened: DRI interdiction drives seizures and arrests in Mizoram and Assam
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), under the Ministry of Finance, carried out intelligence-driven operations along India’s North-Eastern frontier. DRI’s operations in Mizoram and Assam led to seizures of methamphetamine tablets, foreign-origin poppy seeds, and smuggled foreign-origin areca nuts, and resulted in arrests connected to a high-risk road transport method.
Seizures reported by DRI
DRI reported multiple seizure recoveries through a series of intelligence-driven operations in Mizoram and Assam:
15 kg methamphetamine tablets (brick-shaped packets in one recovered case)about 11 MT of foreign-origin poppy seeds10 MT of smuggled foreign-origin areca nuts
Ambulance interception near Sakei Bangla (Mizoram)
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