Overview
- Troops acting on specific intelligence launched a surveillance operation on November 25 along World Bank Road at Zokhawthar in Champhai district.
- The search led to the recovery of 4.444 kg of methamphetamine tablets commonly referred to as Yaba.
- A Myanmar national, identified as Bawi Kanthanga, was apprehended during the interdiction.
- Assam Rifles handed the seized contraband to the Excise and Narcotics Department, Champhai, for forensic review and prosecution under applicable laws.
- Officials frame the bust as part of sustained intelligence-led efforts to disrupt cross-border trafficking routes linked to Myanmar’s Chin state.