India's reluctance to allow Britain to position its officers in New Delhi and Mumbai to monitor illegal heroin trade in the 1980s strained India-UK relations, according to newly-released UK cabinet files. Then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government believed that "illicit heroin movement from India" was at an "all-time peak."
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