Wednesday, September 8, 2010

BSF seizes smuggled goods from Tripura border

From New Kerala. com

Agartala, Sep 8 :


The Border Security Force (BSF) seized textiles worth Rs ten lakh from Amlighat and Bhangamura border of South Tripura last night while the consignment was being smuggled to Bangladesh.During routine patrolling, BSF jawans noticed some villagers, carrying some goods, trying to enter Bangladesh. The jawans challenged the smugglers folowing which they threw away the consignment, comprising sarees and salwar suits, and escaped under cover of the thick forest and darkness. 


Earlier, BSF jawans seized a good quantity of timber worth Rs 1.6 lakh from Muhuri river in South Tripura last week while the teak wood logs were being tied up with banana trunks to be flown towards Bangladesh. 

In another operation, a joint team of police and BSF recovered banned cough syrup worth Rs 15.42 lakh from an abandoned house in Bishramganj of West Tripura on September 6. The consignment comprised 18,000 bottles of the banned cough syrup Phensidyl and 4800 bottles of Recodex, which are consumed as liquor in Bangladesh.

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