Overview

• The Assam Rifles arrested two women on June 20 and two more on June 22 in Champhai district, seizing 200.4 grams of heroin valued at Rs1.49 crore.
• Mizoram’s Excise and Narcotics Department and police recorded a total seizure of 127.49 kilograms of illicit drugs in 2024, including 46.68 kg of heroin.
• Excise and Narcotics Minister Lalnghinglova Hmar warned that most narcotics intercepted are bound for destinations beyond the state, highlighting Mizoram’s emergence as a transit corridor.
• Officials attribute the surge in trafficking to the closure of the Moreh route in Manipur following ethnic violence and political instability in Myanmar.
• With around 14,000 known injecting drug users in Mizoram, civil society groups and churches are being urged to lead de-addiction camps and awareness campaigns.