MALDA, 4 JUNE: In an effort to check the smuggling of contraband drugs from India to Bangladesh, the BSF (Border Security Force) Malda sector office launched a special raid at Malda town station today and seized more than 6,400 bottles of highly concentrated, illegal Phensydil.
Acting on a tip off, BSF officials started a search operation in Malda town station, and searched the Farakka Express train when it arrived at Malda town station midday today.
The commandant of the 69 battalion BSF found some containers stacked on platform no 1, which some persons were loading into a medium size vehicle standing outside of Malda town station through ‘an illegal route', on the way to the railway administrative building, in the presence of members of the Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police. The BSF chased the persons, after they detected the bottles as containing Phensydil. Those on foot fled the stations, but the BSF intercepted the driver of the vehicle.
The BSF officials called the owner of the vehicle, with the help of the driver, for interrogation as to the drug smuggling racket here. The BSF officials came to know that the product was coming from Patna in Bihar. The vehicle owner had been asked to send the product to Gazole.
“We have seized more than 6,400 bottles of Phensydil. There were five to six persons carrying the contraband product on that train but they fled, taking advantage of the huge crowd in Malda station,” said Mr PS Tomar, the DIG, BSF, Malda Sector.
“It is difficult to identify where the product was produced. The labels on the bottles of such powerful (contraband) Phensydil are generally fake. The manufacturers specially make such products for smuggling to Bangladesh and suppress the original address of the pharmaceutical company,” said Mr Tomar. “But we are sure that those products were being transported across the border for smuggling to Bangladesh,” he claimed. The BSF officials estimated the cost of each bottle at Rs 72. ; SNS
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