New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Eighteen people were arrested, 1,424 bank accounts frozen and properties worth Rs 17.82 crore attached during a multi-agency crackdown on an international narcotics network across 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur under 'Operation Trident' on Sunday.

The operation also uncovered hawala transactions worth Rs 100 crore and led to the seizure of 500 detonators and Rs 12 lakh in cash.

The network was allegedly involved in trafficking narcotics across the borders of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh through the so-called Death Triangle Corridor, historically and widely known as the Golden Triangle, which refers to a major transnational narcotics trafficking pipeline that routes illicit drugs from the tri-border reg...