Kishanganj: Drug trade is spreading in Bihar and Bengal via Pakistan and Bangladesh. In the past, when smack and brown sugar were confiscated, in recent times, these figures are shocking, after which the intelligentsia is seen worried about the future of its youngsters. The young generation is wasting their life by getting caught in the trap of smack-brown sugar. If concrete steps are not taken on this in time, then many generations will be ruined.
If sources are to be believed, drugs are being sent to the border areas via Bengal Pakistan and Bangladesh. According to security agency sources, narcotics are first sent to Bangladesh from Pakistan and then from there via Kaliachak, Surjapur, and Malda in Bengal, this drug is being sent to the border areas of Bengal and Bihar as well as to Nepal. Seizures of drugs and arrests in the recent past in Purnia, Araria, and Kishanganj in Bihar as well as in Siliguri, Khoribari, and Islampur areas of Bengal also prove who are involved in this black business of white powder.
If sources are to be believed, many white-collar people are involved in this black business, who are pushing the younger generation into the dungeon of drugs to earn big money. It may be mentioned that in the last three months, smack, brown sugar and other intoxicants worth crores have been seized from the border area. On November 11, two businessmen Arif Sheikh and Nasimul Haque, residents of Malda Kaliachak, Bengal, were arrested with brown sugar worth 2.5 crores from the Phulwari area of Siliguri. On November 12, BSF and Islampur Police and BSF arrested a 21-year-old woman, Jayan Tara Khatoon, a resident of Ratua in Bengal, near Ramganj with brown sugar worth 50 lakhs. Whereas on Sunday, November 13, the Khoribari police arrested three youths with cough syrup worth thousands of rupees. In which one is a resident of the Galgalia police station area of Kishanganj. Not only this, earlier on November 7 in the Galgalia police station area of Kishanganj, the police and SSB had recovered more than 68 grams of smack along with cash worth lakhs of rupees as well as the husband and wife were arrested. Whereas on November 5, the SSB arrested two smugglers with 78 grams of brown sugar along with a huge quantity of cough syrup.
Earlier, 2 people were arrested with narcotics. In the last fortnight, about a dozen drug dealers have been arrested from the Khoribari area itself. On 25 October, SSB 41st Battalion arrested Mohd Sharif Thakurganj and Mohd Qasid while going to Nepal with cough syrup and narcotic tablets. Whereas on October 22, Mukul Rai and Arun Rai were arrested from the Khoribari area with 100 grams of brown sugar and cough syrup. On September 12, the Galgalia police succeeded in arresting Mohd Shafiq resident of Galgalia, Toripatti with 7 grams of brown sugar. The commonality in all these arrests is that most of them are linked to Malda, Kaliachak, and Murshidabad districts of Bengal.
