Drug smuggling on rise along India-Bangladesh border: BSF

Agartala: Drug smuggling has increased along the India-Bangladesh border while the vigil along the frontiers has been tightened to curb it, a top BSF official said here on Friday.
“BSF (Border Security Forces) troopers have seized and destroyed drugs and cannabis plants valued at Rs.270 crore along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura,” Inspector General B.N. Sharma told reporters.
He said: “Since 2012, over 1,017,255 cannabis plants valued at Rs.255 crore have been destroyed along the border with Bangla-desh.”The seizure of drugs has been rising along the border, he said and added the BSF also seized a huge quantity of contraband valued at Rs.36.52 crore.
Plantations of cannabis are done on a large scale in the interior and inaccessible areas of the border region. Sgovernment agencies have a tough time to detect and destroy them.(IANS)