Agartala, Oct. 13 -- Border Security Force (BSF) in a joint operation with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized a huge quantity of Yaba tablets and detained one individual from the bordering area of Boxanagar under Sepahijala District in Tripura on Sunday night, a press release said.

The joint operation, conducted by BSF troops along with NCB Agartala on the intervening night of October 12th and 13th, led to the recovery of 16 packets wrapped in brown tape, suspected to contain Yaba tablets. The packets were found buried inside the kitchen area.

Upon opening, the packets were found to contain approximately 16 kilograms of Yaba tablets (around 1,60,000 tablets) with an estimated market value of Rs16 crores, the press release stated....