Guwahati, Dec. 2 -- The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Guwahati Zonal Unit has busted an international drug trafficking network operating across Myanmar, Manipur and Assam, seizing 6.149 kg of heroin in a joint operation near Silchar.

Acting on specific intelligence developed over an extended period, NCB teams tracked a heroin consignment moving through dense forest corridors along the Myanmar-Manipur border. To avoid conventional highway surveillance and police checkpoints, traffickers allegedly used small motorboats on the Barak River.

On December 1, an NCB team, working with the 147th Battalion of the CRPF and receiving crucial assistance from Silchar Police, intercepted an indigenous motorboat on the Barak River. Two individuals,...