A team of Tripura Police on Tuesday arrested a woman identified as Uma Malakar from her residence located at West Champamura along with huge quantities of Brown Sugar and cash, police said. The police succeeded to trace her out after getting leads from the interrogation of drug kingpin Nahid Maih, who was arrested a few days back, SDPO Sadar Ramesh Yadav said.
According to Yadav, after getting the hints, a team under the leadership of OC East Agartala police station Saroj Bhattacharjee conducted a surprise raid to her residence. “The information was that a huge consignment of drugs was hidden there in West Champa Mura.
Accordingly, raid was conducted as per the coordinates shared by Nahid wherefrom 120 grams of Brown Sugar, 200 Brown Sugar stuffed vials and around 1,000 empty vials were recovered. In addition, Rs 1, 84, 000 cash was also seized along with a mobile phone” , Yadav said.
He said efforts were afoot to attach property of drug peddlers and drug kingpins so that financial support could be also snapped after being arrested. “Few days back Nahid Miah was arrested from Agartala who was one of the biggest suppliers of drugs in Agartala city. He had even links with drug smugglers of Bangladesh, Shillong and Manipur.
Generally, the drugs enter Tripura through these three routes”, he said adding that the police was trying to break the whole nexus of drug peddling in the state and also trying to keep close vigilance on movement of suspicious people. “A number of names have come forward and soon more surprise raids will be conducted”, said Yadav.
Sources said, in the last ten days hundreds of peddlers had been arrested and contraband materials worth more than a crore was seized.
