Imphal, May 21 -- The Special Cell of the Manipur Police arrested a woman from Uttar Pradesh in connection with a drug trafficking case, seizing 1.557 kilograms of high-quality heroin worth more than Rs 10 crore in the international market, officials said on Tuesday.

The Anti-Drug unit revealed that the arrested woman, identified as Shamim Bano, aged 46, a resident of Barauli Malik, Bara Banki in Uttar Pradesh, was part of an extensive interstate narcotics trafficking network.

This syndicate was actively involved in smuggling heroin from Myanmar into India through Manipur, with distribution operations extending to Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi.

Based on credible intelligence inputs, the Special Cell conducted a targeted ...