Abandoned bottles of contraband cough syrup recovered from Sonamura-Srimantapur road, investigation on

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, November 14, 2026

Despite recent attacks by men and women belonging to smuggler families with patrolling BSF jawans along Bangladesh border in Ashabari village and subsequent action, the menace of smuggling from different bordering areas of Sonamura to Bangladesh shows no sign of let-up. This was proved today as this morning local people came across altogether 200 bottles of contraband Eskuf cough syrup lying beside the road connecting Sonamura town with the Srimantapur border check-point.

Sources from Sonamura said that a group of people who had waked up early and were walking on the road saw the abandoned bottles Eskuf syrup and informed the police in Sonamura. The officer in charge of Sonamura police station Tapas Das led a police team to the spot and recovered the 200 bottles and brought them to the police station besides officially confiscating them through legal process. Sources said that the police have already launched an investigation into the matter to trace out the actual owner of the abandoned bottles.

Meanwhile, sources said that in different parts of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Sonamura the smugglers have already cut down stretches of barbed ware fencing to facilitate easy smuggling activity with their counterparts in Bangladesh. The broken parts of the fencing will not be repaired for the time being as , according to a plan of the government of India, the entire stretch of the 856 km long Indo-Bangladesh border in Tripura will be covered by smart fencing with latest upgraded technical facilities for easy detection of smuggling, infiltration and other criminal activities.

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