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Narcotic substances worthy ₹5.79 crore were seized, and 107 individuals person been arrested by the Secunderabad part of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) truthful acold successful 2025 nether its ongoing operation, NARCOS, a peculiar thrust aimed astatine curbing smuggling of drugs connected trains.
Indian Railway Protection Force Service (IRPGS) Divisional Security Commissioner Alakunta Naveen Kumar said that the seizures and arrests correspond a marked emergence from past year’s figures. In 2024, the part registered 67 incidents, recovering narcotics worthy ₹4.27 crore and arresting 82 persons. This year’s enactment reflects an summation of astir 59% successful the worth of narcotics seized, and implicit 62% successful the fig of arrests.
Operation NARCOS, launched by the RPF to tackle narcotic trafficking done the obstruction network, involves intensified checks connected trains and astatine identified achromatic spots crossed the division. The RPF has been coordinating with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and different instrumentality enforcement agencies to place and apprehend carriers and transporters of drugs.
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