Government: North-east cartels shifting towards synthetic drugs

Drug syndicates in India's northeast are shifting from heroin to synthetic drugs like methamphetamine from Myanmar.

Traffickers increasingly use social media and encrypted communication apps to coordinate cross-border smuggling.

Porous stretches of the Indo-Myanmar border, forest routes, and hilly terrain are exploited for trafficking.

Narcotics are concealed in legitimate cargo, passenger vehicles, and goods carriers, with courier and parcel networks used.

The Moreh-Tamu border remains a key transit point for heroin and methamphetamine trafficking from Myanmar.