Overview
- Assam Rifles and the DRI stopped a pickup in Teliamura on Saturday, finding about 200,000 Yaba meth pills worth roughly ₹16 crore.
- Officials identified the driver as Raju Deb, 44, of Jalilpur in West Tripura, and DRI took him, the tablets, and the vehicle into custody for investigation.
- Police say the consignment likely came from Myanmar, moved through Mizoram and southern Assam into Tripura, and was bound for Bangladesh.
- Yaba is a methamphetamine–caffeine pill banned in India, and networks often source it from Myanmar’s Chin State while exploiting Mizoram’s unfenced Myanmar border and Tripura’s long border with Bangladesh.
- The bust follows recent Assam Rifles operations in the Silchar–Cachar area on April 4 and February 17, signaling a sustained, intelligence-led push against drug routes in the northeast.