Tripura Police seize 1.1 lakh Yaba tablets worth Rs 5.5 crore in major drug bust

In a major crackdown on drug trafficking East Agartala Police seized a massive consignment of 110000 Yaba tablets from a hotel in the city The raid was conducted at Woodland Park Hotel Room No 207 in Moth Chowmohani which led to the arrest of three individualsDuring the operation the police recovered one large trolley bag containing 11 yellow plastic packets each filled with 10000 Yaba tablets Rs 1600 in Indian currency and three smart mobile phonesToday we received secret information that drug smuggling was taking place at Hotel Wooden Park Acting swiftly we formed a team under the leadership of the SDPO Sadar and the OC East Police Station and conducted a raid During the operation we arrested three individuals from Room No 7 Dr Kiran Kumar K SP West Tripura saidThe arrested individuals have been identified as Sadul Hussain Talukdar 32 a resident of Dudh Patil Silchar Sadar Nayan Mani NamaSudhra 29 a resident of North Kachu Chara under Kachuchara PS and Biswajit Biswas 28 a resident of Purba Dulo Chara under Salema PSUpon searching their belongings we discovered a trolley bag containing eleven packets Each packet held approximately 10000 Yaba tablets making a total of 110000 tablets The estimated market value of these drugs is around Rs 55 crore We quickly secured the contraband and arrested the suspects he saidThe operation was carried out under SDPO Sadar Debaprasad Roy OC East Agartala PS Rana Chatterjee SI Dilip Das SI Subendu Das and SI Amlesh DebbarmaThe mastermind behind this operation has been identified as Sadul Hossain Talukdar a notorious drug dealer from Assam Another suspect Nayan Moni Namashudra is from Khowai while Biswajit Biswas is from Dhalai The key figure behind the smuggling ring is based in Assam and is known to be a major trafficker of narcotics SP Kiran Kumar K addedWe have taken them into custody and will seek remand for further interrogation A case will be registered against them under the NDPS Act Our goal is to extract all possible information about their network This raid is one of the biggest operations we have conducted in the past three months he saidOC Chatterjee also stated that the case has been registered under East Agartala PS Case No 2025EAG035 dated 21032025 under sections 22C 27A and 29 of the NDPS Act The seizure marks a significant success in the fight against narcotics in the region Authorities are now investigating further links to the smuggling network and the arrested individuals are in police custody with legal proceedingsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever