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UWAHATI: After marijuana from Manipur hit the pot in northern India, marijuana grown in the wild in Bhutan is finding its way to Indian markets
again after a brief lull in illegal trade of the contraband.
Sources said that, according to the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), some big seizures of marijuana from Bhutan in the eastern side across Udalguri district a few years back had closed down the route for a while. However, recent seizures of the contraband in the central and eastern part of the country by Bhutanese authorities have established that smugglers have been using new routes.
Marijuana, which is traditionally known in India by its three grades bhang, ganja and charas is produced in an organized farming system in Manipur, while in Bhutan, it is mostly grown in the wild. Bhutan's state-run newspaper Kuensel had reported on Friday that "Bhutanese communities and individuals have been selling and exporting marijuana growing naturally in Bhutan across the border to Assam for many years, according to data from the royal Bhutan police (RBP)." In March 2009, the RBP had seized nine bags of marijuana weighing 237 kg from two people in Daifam, Samdrupjongkhar, who were going to smuggle it to Assam. Before that, many seizures with consignments weighing 539 kg, 30kg and 5kg have also been made by the RBP from Daifam, the newspaper reported.
Sources said that DRI would now focus on the new routes opened in the western part of the state across the two Bhutanese towns of Daifam and Samdrupjongkhar. "In the past, we had made seizures of 1500 kg and 3,000 kg of Bhutanese marijuana in Udalguri. These had been smuggled in from Bhutan and stocked in local residences, from where they would have been transported to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh," sources said.
UWAHATI: After marijuana from Manipur hit the pot in northern India, marijuana grown in the wild in Bhutan is finding its way to Indian markets
again after a brief lull in illegal trade of the contraband.
Sources said that, according to the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), some big seizures of marijuana from Bhutan in the eastern side across Udalguri district a few years back had closed down the route for a while. However, recent seizures of the contraband in the central and eastern part of the country by Bhutanese authorities have established that smugglers have been using new routes.
Marijuana, which is traditionally known in India by its three grades bhang, ganja and charas is produced in an organized farming system in Manipur, while in Bhutan, it is mostly grown in the wild. Bhutan's state-run newspaper Kuensel had reported on Friday that "Bhutanese communities and individuals have been selling and exporting marijuana growing naturally in Bhutan across the border to Assam for many years, according to data from the royal Bhutan police (RBP)." In March 2009, the RBP had seized nine bags of marijuana weighing 237 kg from two people in Daifam, Samdrupjongkhar, who were going to smuggle it to Assam. Before that, many seizures with consignments weighing 539 kg, 30kg and 5kg have also been made by the RBP from Daifam, the newspaper reported.
Sources said that DRI would now focus on the new routes opened in the western part of the state across the two Bhutanese towns of Daifam and Samdrupjongkhar. "In the past, we had made seizures of 1500 kg and 3,000 kg of Bhutanese marijuana in Udalguri. These had been smuggled in from Bhutan and stocked in local residences, from where they would have been transported to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh," sources said.
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