AGARTALA, Jan 16 (TIWN): A gun was recovered from Agartala City on Monday, which has created much tension among the common people here. Reportedly, at Cantonment road under Kathaltali, Ramnagar the Gun was recovered by daily workers there. Immediately they informed the Ramnagar Outpost. Ramnagar Police Station informed that following the complain police rushed to the spot and recovered the gun. However, police is yet clueless about the incident, neither there is any urgency to find out the culprit. It’s worthy to mention here that lack of CCTV cameras, lack of enough police force has remained as a threat to the safety of the people here. Just 3 months back in a shocking development 2 round bullets, Phensedyl, chorex and huge amount of drug were recovered from the heart of Agartala City on Oct 27. In total 500 bottles of liquors were recovered. West Tripura Police led by SP Abhijit Saptarshi and Add SP Sharmistha Chakraborty held raid at a house in Masterpara, Agartala where these items were recovered. BSF had arrested 2 persons from border areas at Nischintapur, Agartala for smuggling drugs on the same day. Apart from that ATM loots, robberies have hit the Capital State.

It was on Oct 1, another young men were arrested for such activities from the same city. A smuggler, resident of Tripura Raju Debbarma was arrested with 2 packets of brown sugar from Agartala Gol-Chakkar area. Gol-Chakkar remained as smugglers’ zone in Capital City since decades, powered by the open mafia raj of smugglers at there.

The Sonamura based smugglers are targeting the capital  Cities young boys.

Tripura’s massive Ganja productions are stabling the economy of the Mafia-Raj state, whereas brown sugar is more exporting inside the state from NE, Bangladesh. Rapid influx business of Mayanmar made products are also reported many times in this running year. 

Drug smuggling business inside the State is getting boost day after day due to unholy nexus of Drug Mafias and some corrupt officials of State Police. In January, Jirania Police recovered 900 grams of brown sugar, worth Rs 42 lakhs from Jirania, 35 kilometer from the capital city. The arrested youth were identified as, B Obroi Meseka (22), Sanu Ram Reang (29), Ajoy Kalai (28), Sudip Debbarma (27).

Bishargarh Police on last month recovered 1 crore’s ganja while they were exporting from Tripura to other NE states.

 In February, a team of Battala outpost police arrested one  Nihar Ranjan Roy drug peddler and claimed to have busted a smuggling ring involved in selling drugs from one state to anoth

It’s said that Tripura, Mizoram, Myanmar border regions along Bangladesh turned into a narcotics smuggling den in spite of tall claims from Bangladesh authorities. 

 400 gram brown sugar was seized from a bus by 159th battalion BSF on Sunday afternoon at Dharmanagar ISBT area. The bus was travelling from Dharmanagar to Agartala. Reportedly, Brown sugar worth Rs. 30 lakhs was being shipped into the Capital City Agartala. On July 7,  1 kilo and 365 gram of Brown Sugar (worth 1.25 crores)  was recovered from Silchar-Agartala train at Panisagar by BSF 159^thbtln. 

3.     On July 8, four (4) culprits from Mizoram-Silchar border : 1) Amanyaual  2) Richard Lalbe Moughta  3) Laldin Jera (24), 4) Mingchung Nanga (27). They were nabbed from BhajaBazar, Silchar Mizoram Border areas. On July 28, Assam police arrested 3 Tripura smugglers at Silchar, named Raju Nama Sudra (28), Bapan Saha (28), Abhijit Debnath (32) who were smuggling brown sugar and heroin.

However, chiefly the young people are found to be involved in such activities and Tripura’s massive unemployment, crisis, lack of income source has been the chief reason behind it.