Agartala, Apr 29, 2024, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, April 29: Soon after the arrival at Agartala Railway Station from Bihar four youths were apprehended with banned cough syrup bottles on their back backpack on Monday.

Acting on a specific information, the Government Railway Police at Agartala Railway Station jointly with the Railway Protection Force laid an ambush in the platform no. 2 of Agartala Railway Station and detained the four Bihar youths.

The detained individuals were identified as Uma Shankar Singh, Abhishek Kumar, Bijendra Kumar, and Nikesh Kumar.

Their backpacks were searched and at least 345 bottles of banned Eskuf syrup bottles mainly consumed as drugs were seized from those backpacks, said police. All of them boarded Kamlabati Express from Bihar to reach here at Agartala on Monday.

The seized contraband items worth around Rs. 1.72 lakhs, said police.