Agartala, Oct 17
In a joint operation, security forces recovered drugs worth Rs 4.5 crore from a goods train arriving here from Delhi, officials said on Friday.
A senior official said that, acting on specific intelligence, a joint team of security forces conducted a thorough search of a goods train stationed at the Jirania railway station in West Tripura district and recovered 90,000 bottles of banned Eskuf Cough Syrup.
With the latest seizure of drugs, narcotics worth over Rs 134.50 crore have been confiscated in Tripura in less than three weeks.
Acting on secret inputs, the joint team of Assam Rifles and Customs officials intercepted two trucks carrying cement as cover cargo for narcotics trafficking and recovered 69.61 kg of highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at around Rs 70 crore.