Seeking other routes
IFP Bureau15 Jan 2024
Communal riots or not, the drug business and supply must go on uninterrupted. That seems to be the dictum.
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Communal riots or not, the drug business and supply must go on uninterrupted. That seems to be the dictum.
As many as 20 soap boxes containing heroin were seized from the arrested drug supplier at Umtyra in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.
Communal riots or not, the drug business and supply goes on uninterrupted in violence-hit Manipur. One wonders, where do they find the time and audacity to smuggle drugs in the midst of all the mayhem?
Drug cartels based in Manipur have become major suppliers of brown sugar, heroin and other synthetic drugs across the country.
Brown sugar weighing 346.43 gm was seized from a drug smuggler from Assam in Manipur's border area.
Now after a lull of nearly three months, the drug route in Manipur is open once again and business as usual.
Four individuals, including one woman, who were allegedly involved in heroin smuggling, were arrested by Kangpokpi police.
IFP Editorial: There must certainly be patrons or powerful people behind the widespread poppy plantation just as there would be for the heavy traffic of drugs in recent times.
A team of Mayang Imphal Police arrested one drug seller and seized suspected heroin powder during random frisking and checking at Bengoon Sati Khongnang Makhong area.
During a search operation in Churachandpur, seven plastic packets, suspected to contain WY tablets, were detected.
The brown sugar weighing 1.9 kg was confiscated by the officials of the Anti-Smuggling unit of the Customs Division, Imphal from the possession of an individual at Mantripukhri in Imphal East on Tuesday.
IFP Editorial: Chief Minister N Biren Singh needs to have a plan for curbing police corruption if he wants to really succeed in his War on Drugs campaign.
People need to become aware of the severe impacts of poppy plantation, as it not only destroys the future of youths but also gives a huge impact in ecological balance, state BJP vice president Ch Chidananda Singh said.
Though we cannot immediately issue termination orders for those involved in drug-related cases, I assure that their termination and jail term will be compulsory after following the legal procedure, CM Biren said.
Ten oap cases containing heroin powder, weighing around 150 grams, were detected from the possession of the drug peddler.
IFP Editorial: The general impression is that the state is targeting the victims and simplistic poppy farmers while protecting the interests of the major players.
Thoubal police arrested the drug peddlers at Lilong Ningthikhong Road
IFP Editorial: The shift of poppy cultivation in areas of Manipur could have been a direct fallout of the diminishing trend in the Golden Triangle and Myanmar. Yet, if all of the hills are under poppy cultivation, it would only be a tiny fraction of the global drug production.
IFP Editorial: Merely rewarding policemen for seizure of drugs and couriers is not enough. The main focus should be on investigation of the drugs which found its way into the hands of the law-enforcing agencies and in finding out who are the powerful patrons or drug-lords behind this lucrative business.
The arrested persons have been identified as Satminlun Kipgen,24, son of Zangkholen of T Nampao Village, Chakpikarong, Chandel District, and Seikholen Haokip, 19,son of Nghankhojang of Khonomphai Village, Moreh.