Agartala: A local court in Tripura’s Dhalai district on Tuesday sent a Bangladeshi youth to police remand for illegally entering into India and possessing a pistol On Monday, police arrested Suman Chakma from the Sealdah-Agartala Kanchenjunga Express at Ambassa railway station. A resident of Bagapara village in Khagrachari district of southern Bangladesh, Suman claimed that he was not into arms business but has been transporting arms from India to Bangladesh for a man of his village whom he identified as Giyas Uddin (35). This is the third time he was carrying arms and got caught in the process.According to Suman, there are no jobs in Bangladesh for which he got involved in arms transportation work to take care of his ailing parents. He said he crossed the Bangladesh border in the Karbok area of Amarpur in Gomati district on February 10 and spent the night at Agartala railway station. He added that he left for Lumding the next day with the help of a local.In his confession to police, Suman said, “As per agreement, a Naga man handed me over a pistol three days ago in a hotel in Lumding where I was put up. I boarded the Agartala- bound Kanchenjunga Express on Monday and was scheduled to cross the border this morning.”Ambassa police station OC Himadri Sarkar said they got inputs in the afternoon that Suman was travelling with arms. “With the support of railway police, we nabbed him from the train,” he added.In a separate development, North Tripura district police on Tuesday arrested a drug peddler and his woman accomplice and seized about 30,000 Yaba tablets worth Rs 60 lakh from a house in the Rajbari area of Dharmanagar. Acting on a tip-off, SP (North) BP Chakraborty raided the house of one Sabuddin and detained Badsha Mia (40), a resident of Fultali (Matinagar) under Amtali police station.

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