Seized drugs (File image)

Agartala: Chief Minister Manik Saha has said Tripura is being used as a corridor for trafficking narcotics to Bangladesh from Myanmar.

Briefing reporters, following a high-level meeting on narcotics smuggling and national security in Guwahati on Saturday, CM Saha said measures would be taken to increase surveillance along the stateโ€™s borders.

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โ€œNarcotics are being sent to Bangladesh from Myanmar via Tripuraโ€™s border with Assam and Mizoram, despite all-out effort to stop drug smuggling,โ€ he said.

The high-level meeting, chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, was attended by chief ministers, chief secretaries and DGPs of northeastern states.

โ€œThis is for the first time, the Union home minister held a meeting on drug trafficking with chief ministers and DGPs of the Northeast. He made it clear that the country will not allow its soil to be used for narcotics smuggling,โ€ CM Saha said.

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Highlighting Tripuraโ€™s effort to make the state drug-free since 2018, Saha said his government has made highest drug seizures, including heroin, brown sugar, ganja and yaba tablets.

A special investigation team (SIT) has been constituted to probe 19 cases registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, he said.