The Nagaland Police have destroyed drugs valued at Rs 34.82 crore in Dimapur, an official said on Friday.
A police officer said that destruction of drugs valued at Rs 34.82 crore was carried out at Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) dumping ground at Burma camp on December 5.
The District Drug Disposal Committee, Dimapur, headed by Commissioner of Police, Dimapur, Kevithuto Sophie along with Superintendent of Police (Crime) and other officials before the destruction conducted physical verification of the drugs on the ground at the prosecuting inspector's court office.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur earlier approved the drug destruction proposal.
As per the Commissioner of Police reports relating to the destroyed drugs, 79 cases were earlier registered across 9 police stations under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985.
The destroyed drugs include brown sugar and heroin, sunflower, heroin, crystal meth, cough syrup and opium straw.
Methamphetamine or meth is a powerful and highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system of the human.
As per the advice of the Central government all the states periodically destroy the seized drugs.
Police, Customs, Assam Rifles and Border Security Force have been regularly confiscating drugs in the northeast.
Between November 20 and December 2, the Assam Rifles, state police along with other law-enforcing agencies in separate operations seized various drugs valued at Rs 170 crore in Tripura and Mizoram.
On December 2, in a significant haul of drugs, the Assam Rifles in a joint operation with state police seized huge quantities of drugs worth Rs 68.03 crore in Mizoram’s Champhai district, bordering Myanmar.
On November 24, Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with Customs, seized one kg of Crystal Methamphetamine tablets valued at Rs 16 crore from Badharghat, on the outskirts of Tripura's capital city Agartala.
On November 20, the Assam Rifles and state police jointly seized 28.520 kg of Methamphetamine tablets, 52 grams of heroin valued at Rs 85.95 crore and a foreign pistol in three separate operations in Mizoram's Champhai district.
Mizoram, southern Assam, and Tripura become an easy corridor for drugs ferrying after being smuggled from Myanmar.
Varied drugs, especially heroin and highly addictive methamphetamine tablets are often smuggled into the northeastern states of India from Myanmar, which shares a 1,643-km unfenced border with four northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km).
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