In a biggest seizure in recent times, the Assam Rifles posted in Tripura on Thursday have seized large quantities of Yaba tablets worth over Rs 52 crore and seized a mini-truck from Khayerpur area under West Tripura district.

Assam Rifles sources said that the para-military troops acting on secret information intercepted a mini truck at Khayerpur in West Tripura district and recovered 2,60,000 Yaba (Methamphetamine) tablets valued at Rs  52 crores.

Though the Assam Rifles seized the vehicle, the driver of the mini truck managed to escape.

The seized drugs have been handed over to the Customs Department, Agartala for further legal proceedings.

An Assam Rifles press statement said that the successful operation also resulted in seizure of one vehicle. The seized drugs have been handed over to the Customs Department DPF Unit, Agartala for further proceedings.

Acting on specific intelligence, Assam Rifles conducted a well-executed operation which led to the recovery of a huge amount of Yaba tablets which are estimated to be priced at a whopping Rs 52 crore in international market. The anti-drug operation will go a long way in contributing towards ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat’ call given by PM Modi and anti-drug campaign being spearheaded by Chief Minister of Tripura  and is an addition to a series of consecutive successful operations by Assam Rifles leading to recovery of drugs worth crores of rupees highlighting the force's unwavering commitment  in the fight against drug trafficking and illegal smuggling activities in the region, said the Assam Rifles’s statement.

While, police sources said that the truck, which was carrying the drugs, was coming from neighbouring Mizoram, which has 510 km of unfenced border with Myanmar.

The drugs have been smuggled from Myanmar and then ferried to Southern Assam to supply them in other parts of the country or abroad, said police sources adding that Tripura has become an easy corridor of drug smuggling as the state has an 856 km international border with Bangladesh.

Popular among the drug addicts, the highly addictive Methamphetamine tablets, also known as party tablets, were often smuggled from Myanmar and were being ferried to other parts of India and abroad.