Meghalaya transit zone for narcotics: NCB

Shillong, May 22 (PTI) Meghalaya has emerged as a major "transit route" for narcotics mainly originating from the north-eastern states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said today.

"Though consumption (of narcotics) is comparably very low in Meghalaya, the state is a major transit zone for drugs and movements are made through roads to the demand areas in West Bengal, Guwahati and Bangladesh," NCB director general O P S Malik told told reporters here.

Declining to divulge details of the "drug route" in the state, Malik, however, said, "We shall take up the matter with the state government".

He pointed out that Arunachal, Manipur and West Bengal were the highest producers of illegal opium in the eastern region of the country.