Int'l drug cartel busted in North East, ₹100 crore worth of hawala transactions found

An international narco-cartel has been busted in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur, Home Minister Amit Shah said. The operation revealed ₹100 crore of hawala transactions, froze 1,424 bank accounts, attached properties worth ₹17.82 crore, and led to the arrest of 18 people. The network trafficked narcotics across the borders of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh through the Death Triangle Corridor.