Two-way drug smuggling: Four Bihar youths arrested from Agt station with cough syrups

The Agartala railway station, which become a most preferable travelling spot for human trafficking as well as vast trade network of narcotic items by the inter-state and international smugglers for transportation of their smuggle items, now, it its latest edition four peddlers from Bihar were arrested on Monday, who arrived in the city for their two-way smuggling bid.

Police sources said that based on specific intelligence inputs, the authorities of Government Railway Police (GRP) along with RPF on Monday detained four suspected youths at Agartala railway station, who were coming from Bihar from Kamalabati express and police recovered 345 bottles of banned cough syrup, Ex-cough under their possession.

Sources said that these four arrested youths arrived at the city with banned cough syrup mainly to collect dry Cannabis (Ganja) and with the target of double-profit; they brought good quantities of banned cough syrup.

Police added that during preliminary interrogation arrested youths revealed their network of two-way narcotic trade and all of them on Monday have also forwarded in a local court  under a specific case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act with police remand appeals for further interrogation.