Cash Crop: Heroin

Cash Crop: Heroin
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  • Processing heroin is a cottage industry in Tikra Usma and Tikra Murtaza villages in UP's Barabanki.

  • Last year 43 kilos of heroin was seized from the two villages.

  • The drug trade is estimated to be Rs 1,500 crore in these villages.

  • Heroin is sent in trucks to the Bangladesh border and then on to the Southeast Asian markets.
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