New Delhi (10.05.2025): A joint team of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Customs, Assam Rifles and Manipur Police has seized 7,755.75 grams of heroin worth Rs 54.29 crore and 6,736 grams of opium worth of Rs 87.57 lakh in the international grey drug market, along with cash of Rs 35.63 lakh from the bordering areas of Churachandpur District of Manipur on June 5-7, 2025. Special operation codenamed as “Operation White Veil” also seized two Baofeng walkie-talkies and one Maruti Eeco Van and five persons were arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

Continuing the battle against the smuggling and trafficking of contraband drugs in the North Eastern Region, in the early morning hours of June 6, 2025, two suspects on a Maruti Eeco Van at Behiang Village bordering Myanmar were discreetly pursued, leading to a residential house at Thadou Veng in Singngat Sub-Division. On searching the house, 219 soap cases containing heroin and eight packages & 18 small tin cans containing opium were recovered along with two Baofeng Walkie-Talkies and cash amounting to Rs 7,58,050. While one person was apprehended from the house, two other persons, who escaped, were intercepted at Bualkot Check Gate. In a quick follow-up action, the residential house of one of the accused persons located at Behiang Village was searched and two packages containing opium and cash amounting to Rs. 28,05,000 recovered.

Acting on further inputs received during the operation, two persons carrying improvised manpacks were intercepted at Zoukhonuam Village near BP 46 on June 7, 2025. Search of the manpacks resulted in the recovery of 440 soap cases containing heroin. Preliminary investigation indicates that the seized contraband drugs were smuggled into the bordering areas of Churachandpur District from Myanmar through the porous forested Indo-Myanmar border.