One arrested with heroin

One person was arrested and 31.5

gram of heroin was seized from him at a place near Seling village in Aizawl district, officials said today.

The officials said that Lalnunmawia of Thuampui was arrested arrested last night and booked under relevant sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

In a separate incident, Excise and Narcotics department officials also seized 2.55 lakh tablets of pseudo-ephedrine being brought from Assam to be smuggled to Myanmar.

Six persons were detained for interrogation in this connection, the officials said, adding that large quantities of pseudo-ephedrine, precursor for clandestine manufacture of the dreaded Methamphetamine, were being smuggled from Mizoram to Myanmar.