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Police’s drive against drug-mafias continue, but yet to Catch the top heads in Tripura Politics
TIWN July 14, 2019
Police’s drive against drug-mafias continue, but yet to Catch the top heads in Tripura Politics
PHOTO : Police burning contraband items. File Photo.

AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): Tripura Police have continued its battle against drug-mafias excect top heads in politics. Police are taking action in all fields but when it is about the political party’s political heads even though their involvements were time to time alleged, problems are erupting for police to take hurdle free actions. In last one week, from various places drug-smugglers were arrested along with lakhs of contrabands’ recovery. On yesterday, Assam Rifles caught a drug peddler at Chandrapur SBT.The arrested youth named Jayanta Debnath has been handedover to East Agartala Police station.Rs. 210 boxes of brown sugar have been seized from him.Assam Rifles was informed via sources about Jayanta Debnath and thus planwise they caught him red-handed on spot. Later, the drug peddler has been handed-over to East Agartala police.East Agartala PS OC-Jayanta Baidya said that 4.2 gram brown sugar has been recovered whose market price is 50,000 rupees. On July 6, two persons were arrested in North Tripura’s Churaibari with huge quantity of heroin, brown sugar in a special drive led by North District SP Bhanupada Chakraborty.

The raid was done in Premtala area of Churaibari on the basis of secret information came to the SP via sources.The two arrested persons are Jaharul Islam (27), Billal Ahmed (26).Both of them are residents of Pathakandi area of Karimaganj in Assam, were carrying brown sugar in bikes.Worth of the seized items are at least 50 lakhs. 

Since few years, yaba tablets have become Tripura’s most seized contrabands, results of massive illegal border business. In a successful drive, Ranir Bazar Police Station recovered 40,000 numbers of YABA Tabletstand 24,000/- cash depending on relievable information from their sources at around 4:30 AM from Madhab Bari Inter State Truck Terminus. Police said, three persons namely Manir Hussain (28), Alek Hussain (30) & Pritam Bhowmik (25) were arrested in this connection with their private vehicle bearing registration No. TR 01 AZ 0657 (Dustan) from the spot. The approximate value of the narcotics is around INR 40.00 Lacs (Forty Lacs).

The raid was headed by SDPO Jirania Suman Majumder and OC Ranir Bazar Police Station Soumen Das along with their team.This narcotics recovery and arrest at Madhabbari Inter State Truck Terminus is another success of Tripura Police.But what worries is that amid massive seizers, the drug peddlers are uncontrolled, continued unafraid jobs in contraband dealing.

On June 24, SP North Bhanupada Chakraborty led raided 1.5 crores of yaba tablets were seized whereas in last one year 10 crore’s worth yaba tablets have been seized.

BSF almost everyday seizing huge numbers of contrabands where yaba tablets are common. On June 21 late-night in such attempt, BSF has seized 9,000 yaba tablets worth 45 lakhs at Sonamura K K Nagar.

Recently BSF stated that such narcotic dealers are using women often in cross border smuggling. On yesterday, police seized 7,200 bottles of phensedyls, huge number of tablets from Shib Bari area in Agartala from godown of a local named Ratan Saha. 

A survey says, much popular in Ganja smuggling since decades, state Tripura has now developed yaba tablets smuggling, more dangerous drug than phensedyl and ganja.

Ya ba, formerly known as ya ma, are tablets containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine. The illicit use of this drug combination has caused problems in South East Asian countries. 

Police’s drives are praiseworthy but allegedly could not even curb 5% of the actual drug empire and without ratting the drug-den nurtured at the top-layer, the police can not end the drug-mafias. Police’s failure lies in its inactiveness to take action against BJP leaders as PratimaBhowmik even after she threatened an IPS Officer Kiran Kumar on face to kill him saying, “Tereko hum abhi maar dalega”.

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