Mizoram: Two sentenced to 10 years in jail for drug trafficking in Champhai
India TV NewsA 78-year-old man along with his son was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in Mizoram's Champhai district for drug trafficking. Special court judge Liangsangzuala convicted the duo under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, and sentenced them to 10 years in jail. Earlier, a combined team of law enforcing agencies seized heroin and foreign-origin cigarettes valued at Rs 5.67 crore and apprehended five smugglers from different places of Mizoram on Thursday, an official said. Officials said that combined teams of Assam Rifles, Customs Preventive Force, Excise and Narcotics department officials and special narcotics police station of Mizoram police in separate operations seized the drugs and the foreign-origin cigarettes from Aizawl and Champhai districts.