3 pistols with drugs seized in city, 5 arrested in different cases

AGARTALA:

City police, in two separate operations, detained altogether 5 persons involved in the ominous drug trade and seized huge quantity of drugs including 3 sophisticated firearms today.

The bigger operation was launched by police of North, Dhalai and West Tripura district. Reportedly, police of Jirania police station nabbed two youth identified as Naresh Chakma and Besik Chakma, who hailed from two adjoining sub-divisions of the Gomati district. It had been suspected that the firearms were being carried from Nagaland along with a consignment of Yaba tablets.  

Sources in the police department said, a secret input was generated by the secret sources that two sophisticated firearms along a consignment of Yaba tablets was arriving here in the city through train.

“In order to evade strong security check, the accused duo decided to get off the train in Jirania police station. Alerted by the information, a police team under the leadership of OC Jirania police station was already laid an ambush in the railway station. They failed to escape the police dragnet and arrested”, said a highly placed source in the police department.

On being asked on the seized stuff, sources said, “Altogether 3000 Yaba tablets have been seen along with three country-made pistols and two magazines. The pistols seized during the operation are little different from the usual 9mm pistols. The length measured 7.65 mm and well designed.” Sources in the debarment also informed this reporter that both of them had been booked in several cases including arms smuggling.

On the other hand, a housewife and two of her accomplices were arrested from Bhati Abhoynagar area located in the city peripheries for being involved in drug trade. Speaking on the issue, SDPO Priya Madhuri Majumder said, acting on a tip-off three of them were arrested from the residence of the woman. Heroin worth Rs 4 lakh had been confiscated in the search operation conducted by the NCC police, she added.

“The arrested persons are Madhuri Debbarma (31), Tapash Shil (37) and Partha Chakraborty all residents of the city and the suburb areas” said a source in the department.


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