Huge quantities of Burmese betel nut, worth over Rs two crore in the international market, were seized from a train at Ramnathpur railway station in Assam’s Hailakandi district on Wednesday, police said.
Acting on a tip-off from the local population, the police seized 560 bags of Burmese betel nut, weighing around 46 tonnes, from the Bairavi-Silchar passenger train.
The train was on its way from Silchar to Hailakandi.
The market value of the seized betel nut is over Rs two crore and these were suspected to be smuggled from Mizoram to West Bengal.
Two railway carriages have been seized by police, Superintendent of Police Gaurav Upadhyay said
