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Drug smuggling unabated along Myanmar border
Seven Sisters Post | Guwahati (May 9)
According to the home ministry figures, 3,89,600 ephedrine tablets en route to Myanmar and China were seized by security forces in the first three months of this year. Last year, 1,10,81,180 tablets were seized, while in the previous year, the number was 62,500.
Ephedrine – a chemical used to prepare medicines for treatment of asthma – is in high demand in China and Myanmar for manufacturing narcotics.
The controlled substances are used to prepare party drugs like ‘Ecstasy’ and ‘Ice’, which fall under the amphetamine class of drugs. “A portion of these drugs and then smuggled back to India,” a source said.
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