North Tripura district Superintendent of Police Bhanupada Chakraborty saidthat the drugs contained in many soap cases were carried in a TATA Sumovehicle, which was coming from southern Assam.“Acting on secret information, we laid a checkpoint at Churaibari in north Tripura district and intercepted the vehicle. The three drug peddlers along with the drugs were travelling in the vehicle, Chakraborty told IANS.The arrested drug peddlers -- Abdul Ali (28), Suman Krishna Das (21) andPrasenjit Das (23) – would be produced in a court on Tuesday.Police are now interrogating the detainees.Another police official said that the drugs were smuggled from Myanmar andthrough Mizoram and southern Assam, these brought to Tripura intending tosmuggle to Bangladesh.Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha appreciated the police for their successin capturing the drugs.Saha tweeted : “As part of the ongoing special drive against drugs, Tripurapolice achieved huge success with the seizure of approx. 1.3 kg heroin(worth Rs 10 crore) from Churaibari in North Tripura district today.Three persons have been arrested in this connection. We are committed tobuilding drugs-free Tripura & the state police has been playing a laudablerole to achieve the goal.Tripura’s 856 km border with Bangladesh and Mizoram’s 510 km frontier withMyanmar becomes an easy corridor of drug smuggling in northeast India.--IANSsc/shb(Disclaimer: This post has been auto published from IANS news agency without any modification to the text and has not been reviewed by editor)
