Agartala, Oct 13 — In a major crackdown on narcotics trafficking, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday seized methamphetamine tablets worth ₹16 crore in Tripura’s Sepahijala district and arrested a woman drug peddler.
According to a BSF spokesperson, the joint operation was conducted on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday based on specific intelligence inputs about the storage of a large quantity of narcotics at a residence in Madhya Boxanagar. The team recovered 16 kg (around 1.6 lakh tablets) of methamphetamine, commonly known as Yaba tablets, packed in 16 brown-taped packets buried inside the kitchen of the house.
The house owner, Lipiyara Khatun (33), was taken into custody for further questioning. The seized drugs and the accused were later handed over to the NCB’s Agartala unit for legal proceedings. Officials said the successful joint operation demonstrates the BSF’s firm commitment to combating cross-border smuggling and drug trafficking in close coordination with central enforcement agencies.
This seizure comes barely a week after another major drug haul in the state. On October 6, the Assam Rifles, in collaboration with Customs officials, seized 69.61 kg of methamphetamine tablets valued at ₹70 crore and arrested four individuals in a major anti-narcotics operation. That raid followed an earlier bust on September 29 in Mohanpur, West Tripura, where security forces recovered 60.77 kg of banned meth tablets worth ₹60 crore.
A senior police officer said preliminary investigation suggests that the narcotics were smuggled from Myanmar through Mizoram and southern Assam, before reaching Tripura for further trafficking into Bangladesh.
Tripura, sharing an 856 km border with Bangladesh, remains a sensitive corridor for cross-border smuggling, illegal trade, and infiltration, making it a focal point of anti-drug enforcement efforts.
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