'Udta Punjab', Still? Pakistan Continues To Push Drugs Into India Through Border State
IndiatimesUpdated on Jul 04, 2021, 13:24 IST
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Heroin is the main narcotic being smuggled into India to generate funds which, experts indicate, are used to fund militancy in Kashmir, as per an IANS report.
After that poppy is the second most smuggled drug and then comes opium.
According to the MHA data collated from all frontiers on the 3,323 km India-Pakistan border, over 979 kg of heroin was seized from the Punjab frontier in the last two-and-a-half years from January 1, 2019 to May 31 this year.
Smuggling of drugs from Pakistan was at its peak in 2020 during the last three years when 506.241 kg of heroin was seized at the Punjab border. The number was almost half in 2019 when 232.561 kg heroin was confiscated.
Till May 31 this year, the data reveals, a total of 241.231 kg of heroin was seized.
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