The Enforcement Directorate has arrested four more people in its Operation Trident probe into an alleged narco-hawala network linked to drug seizures in Mizoram and neighbouring states. The arrests were formalised on 30 October 2026 by the ED’s Aizawl Sub-Zonal Office. All four were already lodged in Central Jail, Aizawl, tied to earlier narcotics cases. The ED obtained production warrants and presented them before the Additional District and Sessions Judge-I, Aizawl, which ordered their formal arrest and granted 48 hours of custody for interrogation. Arrested were Lalrammuana of Champhai in Mizoram, Thangcintuang alias Chintuang alias Tluanga of Bulfek village in Myanmar, Jabrul Haque of Sribhumi in Assam, and Abu Saleh Md Saif Uddin of Karimganj in Assam. According to the ED, Lalrammuana was the main handler of a 49.101 kg methamphetamine consignment seized on 21 August 2025, with Thangcintuang identified as the Myanmar-based supplier. Jabrul Haque was described as the intended receiver at the Damchhera-Kanhmun border area, while Abu Saleh Md Saif Uddin was linked to the financial side. The ED said his bank account received ₹11.44 crore, including ₹6.67 crore in cash, and allegedly fed hawala accounts in Champhai. Operation Trident is based on three connected narcotics cases that underpin the ED’s money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Earlier cases include a seizure of 4.722 kg of heroin in 440 soap cases at Zokhawthar in Champhai district on 14 March 2025, and another seizure involving 49.101 kg of methamphetamine tablets and 40 grams of heroin near Seling in Mizoram on 21 August 2025. The third case began in Manipur, with the seizure of 2.413 kg of brown sugar and ₹31.43 lakh in cash in Churachandpur on 2 July 2026. That led the ED to an alleged hawala operation run by Zenngaihniang alias Taniang at New Lamka in Churachandpur, where officers searched on 23 October 2026. Investigators seized cash books, registers, notebooks, handwritten financial accounts, and documents tied to a ₹60 lakh property purchase. The ED says the records show regular currency exchange and hawala payments, including conversions of Indian rupees into Myanmar kyat, and payments to individuals in Myanmar. It also says the notes include running totals exceeding 43 crore kyat and a daily entry of ₹54.47 lakh linked to approximately 26 crore Myanmar kyat. The ED claims the network used a Mini-ATM and money-transfer counter, M/s Go Alpha Trip, and says it recorded 2,947 transfers worth ₹175.03 crore between 2024 and June 2026. The ED also says it froze 991 bank accounts linked to the Churachandpur network. Latest status: the four arrested are in ED custody after court orders granted 48 hours for interrogation, and the ED says the broader investigation continues as part of three connected money-laundering cases.