ED searches 16 places linked to smuggling of foreign-origin betel nut via the Indo-Myanmar border

AI Summary

India’s Enforcement Directorate searched 16 locations over an alleged smuggling racket bringing foreign-origin dried areca nuts across the Indo-Myanmar border. Investigators say consignments crossed near Champhai and the Tiau river at Zokhawthar to evade customs controls.

Dried areca nut consignments were brought overland to the Indo-Myanmar border opposite Champhai in Mizoram, and ferried across the Tiau river at Zokhawthar in small lots, bypassing the Land Customs Station, in a well-organised racket, the ED alleges