Dillai Police Seized Huge Stock of Smuggled Burmese Goods

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BOKAJAN: Exposing the recent spike in smuggling of contraband products in the north-eastern region, a huge stock of fake Burmese products was seized by Dillai police along the Assam-Nagaland border in East Karbi Anglong on Tuesday.

The products were seized from three trucks heading towards Guwahati from Dimapur. The seized products included contraband cigarettes, mosquito repellents, synthetic textiles and cosmetics items which are replica of branded items available in the Indian market. The approximate face value of the seized products is estimated to be over Rs 50 lakh.

These fake products were sourced by some Dimapur-based businessman from Manipur through the porous Indo-Myanmar border at Moreh.

The smugglers use NH-36 as a safe transit route to pump in these contraband products into Assam and other places in the north-eastern region.

Cigarettes and Godzilla — a mosquito repellent brand sold in coil form — are popular items among other brands imported from Myanmar. This brand of mosquito repellent had been declared ‘hazardous’ under the Indian Insecticide Act, 1968. This product can be found in almost every grocery shop in the State.

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