Why Agra is fast turning into a narcotics hub
Why Agra is fast turning into a narcotics hub | India Today Insight
The drug mafia has made the city its storehouse, using the easy road connectivity from here to supply to other states in north India
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Narcotics Control Bureau arrests drug smugglers at Kamla Nagar, Agra (Siraj Qureshi)
Agra, best known for the Taj Mahal and Fatehpur Sikri, is now a bustling hub for the narcotics trade. It seems the traffickers are using the city, just 231 km south-east of the national capital, to store narcotics in huge quantities. Several instances have come to light in the past few months of drug syndicates hiring warehouses to stock large quantities of synthetic drugs, including Tramadol pain relief injections and Alprazolam tablets. The most recent incident was on December 19 when officials of the Delhi-based Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the Agra drug administration department and the UP police, raided the warehouse of inters