Much of the narcotics entering India eventually move toward metropolitan markets, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata

The arrest of Myanmar-based drug kingpin Thancintuang, alias Chintuang, from New Delhi on Sunday has once again exposed how Myanmar-based drug traffickers have been using Northeast as a critical transit corridor for narcotics originating from the notorious Golden Triangle, one of the world’s largest illicit drug-producing regions spanning Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand.

For years, security agencies and civil society organisations in Manipur and Mizoram have warned that porous borders, insurgency-linked smuggling routes, weak enforcement infrastructure, and instability in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup have transformed the Northeast into a preferred trafficking corridor for transnational drug cartels.

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