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If a fast-track court is set up in Manipur, most of them could be disposed in record time. IMPHAL: Manipur Chief Minister N.
Biren Singh on Wednesday said a fast-track court will be set up by March to try increasing drugs-related cases in the state. "Drugs-related cases are increasing and many of them pending in courts. We had earlier set up a fast-track court for crime against women and it has started giving exemplary punishments to convicts," he said.Manipur had become a conduit for drug trafficking in the northeast since border trade with Myanmar was legalised in 1995.Officials are concerned over increasing smugglings of gold , precious stones, narcotics drugs and chemicals used in manufacturing drugs..