2 trucks with cannabis seized in Tripura, 1 held

AGARTALA

:

Tripura

Police on Tuesday arrested the driver of a truck transporting a huge consignment of cannabis. The helper fled. Police said a total of 400 kg of

cannabis

kept in 52 packets, was recovered from the cabin of a lorry registered in Kashmir.

The driver, identified as

Manzoor Ahmed Chandni

of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested.

Shortly after the seizure, another truck registered with Assam arrived and when the police tried to stop it, the driver fled from the spot leaving the vehicle on the highway on the Tripura-Assam border. During the search, police recovered cannabis in 35 packets. The consignments were bound from Agartala to Bihar, the police said.


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