By Firstdespatch Desk Aug 22, 2022
Agartala, Aug 22 (FD) The increasing incidences of thefts, attacks and intimidations in the capital city and the other parts of the state for the last few months have made the citizens worried.
When petty rag pickers can pilfer official files from police headquarters and the state’s Higher Education department recently, the city dwellers feel unsafe due to lack of proper policing and measures taken by the state’s home department for the safety and security of the law abiding people in the state.
The recent incident of daccoity at Aralia in the city outskirts under East Agartala police station, common people demands security must be tightened for safety of commoners.
A group of four youths, possibly drug users had forcibly entered into the house of one Rajesh Das, a bank employee at East Aralia on Sunday night and tied the hands of the house owner and other members of the family and robbed the cash and jwellery at the mid night at around 1-30 am.
The dacoits threatened the house owner of dire consequences if they disclosed the incident to police.
Even as the, the incident was informed to police immediately, so far no one was arrested.
The robbery raised an alarm in the city which had for long not witnessed such a violent break in and daring dacoity. The police was, according to sources, trying hard to know the identity of the robbers.
Police suspect that the incident of dacoity could be engineered by the drug users, who are in crisis.
Tripura Chief Minister, Dr. Manik Saha, in a conference of the reporters on Sunday expressed his deep concern at the sizeable increase in numbers of drug addicts and als requested the reporters of the state to identify the source of drugs and cannabis.
Expressing his deep concern, Saha also said that psychiatrists also informed him that the numbers of addicts were on the rise. FD JK