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Local markets of Agartala are becoming huge hubs for Contraband items
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Local markets of Agartala are becoming huge hubs for Contraband items
PHOTO : Ganja seized in Tripura from smugglers. File Photo

AGARTALA, October 25 (TIWN): Few local markets of Agartala are becoming huge hubs for Contraband items. On the issue of narcotics, no amount of laws seems to be enough to reign in the production and distribution of banned substances.

According to a source, in some areas of M.G bazaar the smuggling of banded medicinal Capsules/tablets, cannabis and Phensedyl a cough syrup, with an exceedingly high dose of codeine are gaining momentum these days.

Large parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar are emerging as drug consuming zones, and bordering areas of Tripura are contributing to the fast-emerging drugs market, the source mentioned. 
Police are well aware of the situation but they did not any action against, the source added. The Smugglers networks are very deep-rooted and widespread. The smuggling of these contraband items would, in future, become a major deterrent to better Indo-Bangla relations, the source added.

Due to easy availability of these contraband items a large section of youths of the city are becoming addicted.  

Smugglers based in Tripura are sending these contraband items to Bangladesh virtually by the truckload, hundreds of acres of remote land in West Tripura have become sprawling ganja plantations, the source informed.

According to the source, consumption of alcohol is banned in Muslim majority Bangladesh and thus the demand of alternative means like cough syrup is on the rise in the neighbouring country. Numerous smugglers of both sides of border are engaged in illegal trade of Phensedyl as it gives them huge income.

One bottle of Phensedyl costs about Rs 90, but it is sold at Taka 600 or more in Bangladesh. The source added that complete fencing of Tripura’s 856km boundary with Bangladesh would prevent smuggling menace. Barbed wire fencing already completed along three fourth of international border in state and work of wire fencing is slow due to protests by local residents, geographical barriers or demarcation row with Bangladesh, the source added.

 

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