The Police informed on December 6 that a drug peddler originally from Bihar was caught wearing the Border Security Force’s uniform and was arrested with 21 kg of ganja at Tripura’s Agartala railway station.
Shravan Kumar, the accused, was arrested after he was found entering via the parcel gate, instead of the main gate, at the railway station in Badharghat, barely 4 km from the state capital, by a joint team of the Government Railway Police and the Railway Protection Force on the morning of December 6.
The police noticed that his entry to the station through the parcel gate despite being a “jawan” was what roused the suspicion first. “We asked for his identity card but he could not show any. We searched his bags and found 21 kg of ganja. We detained him and brought to the police station. He was charged under the NDPS Act. He was produced in court and has been remanded in police custody,” said an officer of the GRP station in Agartala.
The state shares an 856-km-long international border with Bangladesh, parts of which still remain unfenced owing to local disputes, making it convenient for trans-border criminals to try to smuggle drugs, clothes, other contraband, livestock and even people.
NE Watch Desk
