New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Under multiple-agency 'Operation Trident', the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has frozen 1,424 bank accounts connected to narco-trade and narco-hawala operators in Mizoram and Manipur, arrested six persons and provisionally attached properties worth Rs 17.82 crore belonging to narco-hawala operators based in Mizoram.

The action was part of a joint operation carried out by the ED's Aizawl and Imphal sub-zonal offices in coordination with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Mizoram Police on October 23.

ED's search operation was conducted under Section 17 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) at multiple premises in Aizawl, Champhai and Lawngtlai (Mizoram) and Churachandpur (Manipur) in three ca...