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Assam Rifles Seize Kyat 3.46 Crore and 1.3 Lakh Yaba Pills in Northeast Operations

Intelligence-led checkpoints along the Indo‑Myanmar frontier targeted key smuggling routes.

Overview

  • At Laki in Mizoram’s Siaha district, troops recovered Burmese kyat 3,46,07,000 and apprehended five people — three from Myanmar and two from India — before handing them to Tuipang Police.
  • Hours earlier at Tuipang in Siaha, forces intercepted a tipper and seized Kyat 1.75 crore with smuggled tobacco and foreign cigarettes, arresting Myanmar national U. Phyu Maung.
  • In Assam’s Cachar district, a joint Assam Rifles–DRI operation on NH‑306 seized 1,30,000 Yaba tablets worth about Rs 39 crore, arrested three Tripura residents, and impounded two trucks.
  • Separate actions in Mizoram’s Champhai recovered 2.057 kg of heroin and another 87.6 grams, with one suspect held and the narcotics handed to the Excise and Narcotics Department.
  • In Manipur, forces seized 268 grams of brown sugar and intercepted 56,000 kg of illegal areca nuts in Noney, with all recoveries transferred to the relevant civil authorities for legal proceedings.