Acting on a tip-off, Thoubal police commandos, along with women cops, waylaid a passenger van heading to Imphal from the border town of Moreh at Pallel along NH-2 and recovered three packets of heroin from their possession.
The two women - Memi Devi (35) and Lubuanliu Panmei (32) - were immediately handed over to the Kakching police for further investigation. During initial interrogation, Memi revealed that the heroin consignment was handed over to them by a Myanmarese woman with the request to hand over the same to her elder sister in Imphal, police said.
On Saturday morning, at Lilong bazaar in the same district, a man was arrested with 4,320 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon. Taking into account the growing involvement of women in smuggling drugs along the Imphal-Moreh section of the highway, the state government is all set to deploy women police personnel at various check-posts along the stretch.
Besides Saturday's seizure, Pallel town has witnessed two massive hauls of Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride (PH) content drugs meant for smuggling into Myanmar in less than four months.
On February 24, commandos seized PH drugs worth over Rs 20 crore from six persons, including defence PRO Colonel Ajay Chowdhry, who is now under suspension.
On April 28, similar drugs worth over Rs 3.5 crores were confiscated from the possession of 11 cops including a sub-inspector and a 'jemadar'. In a follow-up action, the officer-in-charge of Moreh police commando was also arrested on Wednesday last.
Last Friday, the state cabinet decided to enact stringent laws to combat the growing trend of drug smuggling in Manipur. PH-content drugs manufactured in India are in high demand at various illegal drug manufacturing units in Southeast Asian countries and the notorious Golden Triangle - the mountainous opium-producing areas of Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand - for regenerating them into heroin and other party drugs.
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