Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
Guwahati, June 4, 2003:

Worried over growing drug trafficking in various parts of the country,
the Chinese drug enforcing agency will visit India soon to bust the
network run by the drug peddlers. The move came in the wake of recent
seizure of ephedrine from Salt lake city of Kolkata. However, the exact
date of the visit is not available.

Addressing the press conference in Kolkata today, the director general
of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India, Mr. N Singh said that
the step has been initiated in order to crack down the network set up by
the Chinese and the Burmese drug peddlers in eastern and the north
eastern states of the country.

"According to reports we have, several Chinese and Burmese drug
peddlers are active in various states of the country for which we need prompt
actions to crack down their networks”, he added .The director general,
however did not elaborate it further.

Mr. Singh stated that one of the arrested Chinese in Kolkata, on
interrogation by the NCB officials, was found to have different identity. His
nickname was NG, who was arrested in New York in 1997 and remanded to
custody for four years, he said.

On stepping up operations along the north east India in view of drug
trafficking along the border, he revealed that the Indo-Burma border has
been sensitive as far as drug trafficking is concerned and hence
vigilance has been geared up.