Tripura, April 02: Officials announced that the Tripura Police destroyed 7,999 kg of ganja (marijuana) and 49,860 highly-addictive Yaba tablets worth Rs 4.2 crore on Saturday. The high-level drug disposal committee, led by IGP R. Gopala Krishna Rao, destroyed the drugs at Radhakishore Nagar in West Tripura. These drugs were seized over the last few months by various law enforcement agencies from different parts of the state.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and Tripura Police have also seized large quantities of ganja worth around Rs 11 crore and arrested two persons in the past week.
Chief Minister Manik Saha, who holds the home portfolio, had previously announced a zero-tolerance policy against the drug trade during a discussion on the drug menace in the just-concluded Assembly session.
A BSF official said that the para-military troopers have tightened its vigil along Tripura’s 856 km international border with Bangladesh to curb trans-border smuggling of various contrabands.
