Aizawl, Feb 6 (PTI) Four people, including a Myanmar national, were arrested in Mizoram's Aizawl on Tuesday after heroin was seized from their possession, an excise department statement said.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of excise department personnel carried out operations at two separate locations in Aizawl during which 617 grams of heroin were seized, it said.

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During an operation conducted at Durtlang leitan area, 577 grams of the narcotics substance were recovered from the possession of a Myanmar national, and two others.

In another operation conducted in Electric Veng area in Aizawl, excise officials seized 40 grams of heroin from the possession of a drug peddler, the statement said.

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The four accused were booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

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