Yaba tablets worth Rs. 10 lakh seized from Silchar-Agartala train; 2 arrested

Yaba tablets worth Rs. 10 lakh were seized by railway police from Silchar-Agartala passenger train at Dharmanagar station in Tripura on Thursday.

Sources said railway police, on the basis of specific information, set a trap at Dharmanagar station, around 115km from Silchar, and carried out a search in the Silchar-Agartala train as soon as it reached the station around 1pm on Thursday afternoon.

During the checking, police grew suspicious by the body language of two women following which two bags, which were with them, were searched. Around 50,000 Yaba tablets were found after searching the bag, sources said.

The two women identified as Pushpa Khatun (35) and Afiya Khatun (32), residents of Sonamura and Boxanagar in Tripura respectively, were arrested. The market value of the contraband is around Rs. 10 lakh.

The tablets and the two arrested women are under the custody of the railway police. During interrogation, the women confessed that they had received the Yaba tablets at Chamragudam area in Silchar from a person named Daalim and they were about to deliver the contraband to Agartala for money. The women said they had carried out such works in the past too. They will be produced before a court at Dharmanagar on Friday.