AGARTALA, June 12 (TIWN): 400 gram brown sugar was seized from a bus by 159th battalion BSF on Sunday afternoon at Dharmanagar ISBT area. The bus was travelling from Dharmanagar to Agartala. Reportedly, Brown sugar worth Rs. 30 lakhs was being shipped into the Capital City Agartala. BSF intelligence after getting informed, stopped the vehicle and nabbed the drug trafficker. Arrested drug trafficker has been identified as Giyas Uddin and presently kept in BSF camp at Dharmanagar Bishnupur Border area. BSF Jawans have also seized the vehicle with the number TR01B1458. However, BSF is going to handover him to Dharmanagar Police by evening, but before handing over they are keeping sample of the brown sugar for further investigation. BSF Jawans told media that before few days that, earlier at least 700 grams of brown sugar was also caught, but when via Dharmanagar Police Sation the brown sugar was sent to State Forensic laboratory, in laboratory test-result (????) it came out as rice powder(?) or wheat. That’s why samples are kept in BSF camp if same drama gets repeated by State Police & Drug Smuggling mafia again, said BSF Jawans.

Drug smuggling business inside the State is getting boost day after day due to unholy nexus of Drug Mafias and some corrupt officials of State Police. In January, Jirania Police recovered 900 grams of brown sugar, worth Rs 42 lakhs from Jirania, 35 kilometer from the capital city. The arrested youth were identified as, B Obroi Meseka (22), Sanu Ram Reang (29), Ajoy Kalai (28), Sudip Debbarma (27).

In most cases it has been seen that unemployed young people are engaged in drug trafficking activities.

In February, a team of Battala outpost police arrested one  Nihar Ranjan Roy drug peddler and claimed to have busted a smuggling ring involved in selling drugs from one state to another.

Drug smuggling is gaining momentum in the state and on the issue of contraband goods, no amount of laws seems to be enough to reign in the production and distribution of banned substances.

A large part of Bangladesh and Myanmar are emerging as drug consuming zones, and bordering areas of Tripura are contributing to the fast-emerging drugs market, the sources mentioned. 

Drug business, massive narcotics business is destroying the young generation of State, but Manik Sarkar and CBI charsgesheeted corrupt DGP K.Nagraj run Tripura Police Dept’s many officials are keeping their eyes closed due to regular bribes from drug mafias.

As a  result, even though many upright Police officers want to nab culprits but political, departmental corruption keeping honest officials at bay.