DRI seizes 60,000 kg smuggled foreign origin areca nuts in North-East region; 5 held

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....RI seizes 60,000 kg smuggled foreign origin areca nuts in North-East region; 5 held<BR>News and Press Release<BR>Dated:- 22-5-2026<BR><BR>In two major operations yesterday and earlier in the week in t....

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....he North East region, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)'s Guwahati Zonal Unit has seized a large quantity of around 60,000 kg smuggled foreign-origin areca nuts. Acting on specific inte....

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....lligence, DRI conducted operations in Mizoram and Assam leading to these seizures. Initial investigations revealed that foreign-origin dried areca nuts were smuggled into India from Myanmar through My....

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....anmar-Mizoram border. In one of the operation, DRI was assisted by 38Bn of Assam Rifles. So far, 5 persons have been arrested in these operations. Illegal influx of the areca nut from the neighbour....

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....ing country is causing severe economic damage to domestic areca nut growers and undermining economic security in the border regions. =============<BR> News - Press release - PIB....