The quiet and sleepy Sabroom town of south Tripura was rocked by a sensation following the arrest of a medicine shop owner in Calcutta airport on the night of November 18 by officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). He is now in custody and faces multiple charges ranging from drug trafficking to human trafficking , specially from Bangladesh.

Sources said that Abhijit De alias Tom Tom (38) owns a pharmacy bannered as ‘Vivekananda Medical Hall’ located in Sabroom market but behind his retail medicine trade he was also active in smuggling in narcotics and peddling them for customers in and around the Sabroom town. Besides, Abhijit De alias Tom Tom had two other side businesses-human trafficking and taking serious patients outside the state to Chennai, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Bengaluru etc

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