NEW DELHI: The North East, which is close to both Myanmar and Nepal, is slowly becoming a major transit point for drugs and gold, reports say.
The arrest of Nizam, the kingpin of a drug racket based in Myanmar, here revealed that the group sourced supplies from Myanmar through the North East.
It was found that Nizam was operating a fleet of trucks supplying goods from north India to the North East that he used to smuggle the contraband.
During interrogation he also told the police recently that northeastern states are now the biggest hub for supplying raw materials of drugs to the rest of the country.
Nizam came from Guwahati to the national capital and was arrested on arrival, police said.
He had come to make contact with his earlier arrested associates, who are lodged in Delhi jails.
Nizam reportedly useto collect opium and heroin from small cultivators in the North East and supplied to middlemen.
Meanwhile, another report said gold smugglers from Kerala are also expanding their network to border states in the North East to smuggle gold through the porous Indo-Myanmar-Nepal borders to put the investigators off their trail.
There were reports of heavy gold smuggling from the Gulf countries through Kerala which finds way to other states, it added.
