Heroin worth Rs 1.7 lakh seized, one arrested

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Press Trust of India Aizawl
Last Updated : Aug 22 2014 | 5:35 PM IST
Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department officials today seized 56 grams of heroin worth around Rs 1.7 lakh in the black market from Champhai district and arrested one person.
The Excise and Narcotics department officials arrested Lalneihmawii (50) of Zotlang from the outskirts of the Mizoram-Myanmar border Ruantlang village in Champhai district, the department officials said.
The accused reportedly told her interrogators that she smuggled the contraband from Myanmar concealed in four soap boxes.
She was booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
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First Published: Aug 22 2014 | 5:35 PM IST

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