Source: The Indian Express
In a joint operation on Sunday, the Railway Protection Force and the Government Railway Police arrested six people hailing from Bihar at the Agartala railway station and seized from them 970 bottles of a banned cough syrup used as a cheap narcotic substance.
Speaking to reporters, Inspector Sanjit Sen, officer in charge of the Agartala GRP station, said the arrests followed a tip-off about a plan to transport the contraband on the Rani Kamlapati Express, which connects Tripura with Madhya Pradesh. He said that preliminary investigation suggested the bottles were being transported to Tripura via Bihar and West Bengal.
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While all the arrested people were learnt to hail from Bihar, one of them was known to have been living at Gowalabasti, one of the 58 slums in and around the Agartala municipal area.
A case was registered at the local police station under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act in connection with the arrests. The accused will be produced in a court with a plea for remanding them in police custody for further interrogation, officials said.
Inspector Sen said that similar seizures and arrests during routine checks at railway stations had become common in the state.
While Tripura ranks first in the seizure and destruction of drugs in the Northeast, Chief Minister Manik Saha has said the state is being used as a corridor for peddling drugs.
