Aizawl, Apr 5 (IANS): The Mizoram police arrested a drug peddler and seized a large quantity of drugs, smuggled from Myanmar, valued at over Rs 30 crore, police said on Tuesday.

Police officials said that acting on secret information, a team of CID officials detained an illegal drug dealer at Vaivakawn in Champhai district late on Monday night and recovered one lakh highly addictive methamphetamine tablets, weighing 9.602 Kgs, from him. The value of the drugs, smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar, would be at least Rs 30 crore in the international market.

The CID team continued their raids on Tuesday in connection with the seizure of the drugs. Police and para-military officials said that drugs smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar are often seized in Manipur, Mizoram and other northeastern states as the smugglers and drug peddlers are using the northeastern states as their corridors of these illegal trades.

Varied harmful drugs, especially heroin, highly-addictive methamphetamine tablets, also commonly known as 'Yaba' or 'party tablets', poppy seeds, opium, ganja (marijuana), morphine, bottles of cough syrup and various other contraband as well as arms and ammunition are often smuggled from Myanmar which shares a 1,643 km of unfenced border with the states of Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Nagaland.

The Assam Rifles, which guard the India-Myanmar borders, recently deployed additional troopers and stepped up their vigil along these sensitive frontiers.