Four women from Bihar and 2 drivers from UP arrested in Tripura in drug smuggling cases

Agartala: The East Agartala police on Monday arrested four women from Bihar at Jogendranagar railway station of the city with a large quantity of dry cannabis, which they possessed for smuggling to other parts of the country.
Police said based on a secret input, officer in-charge of Collegetilla outpost Shaymal Debnath raided Jogendranagar railway station, noticed the suspected movements of four women, and detained them. During the search operation, police recovered a total of 22 kilograms of dry cannabis worth Rs four lakhs from them.
All four have been arrested and produced before the court on Tuesday.
A specific case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985 has been registered against them and an investigation to find out their local sources and support for the smuggling of the narcotics started.
In a separate raid, Tripura police in cooperation with Assam police seized a huge cache of narcotic cough syrup Phensedyl worth Rs 3.5 at Churaibari in Tripura-Assam border from a truck and arrested driver and the co-driver identified as Chandrasekhar Tiwari and Ramsagar Tiwari residents of Uttar Pradesh.
During search, as many as 38,200 bottles of Phensedyl packed in 215 cartoons were recovered from the truck but yet to ascertain the source of the consignment from where it was loaded and to be delivered to whom, police added.