In a late-night operation, the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) seized narcotics worth Rs30 lakh and arrested nine individuals from a parcel van at Agartala Railway Station on Monday.
Tapas Das, Officer-in-Charge of Agartala GRP Station, informed the media that the operation was based on a tip-off about a large consignment of contraband hidden in a goods container. Acting on specific intelligence, the security forces searched the parcel van and discovered 1,500 bottles of Eskuf, a banned cough syrup, which is often abused for its narcotic properties.
The nine arrested individuals were identified as:
Amit Kumar Srivastav (Bihar)
Chintu Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)
Suman Mia (Agartala)
Chotan Deb (Khayerpur)
Aktar Hossein (Khowai District)
Chan Mia (Khowai District)
Rajib Sutradhar (Agartala)
Majarul Islam (Bishalgarh, Sepahijala District)
Prasenjit Das (Ampi Nagar)
A case has been registered, and the accused were presented in court, where police sought their remand for further investigation into the trafficking network.
