A 65-year-old woman, suspected to be a Pakistani national involved in drug trafficking and a jailbreaker from Nepal, was arrested in the border town of Sabroom in South Tripura district.

Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Sabroom, Nityananda Sarkar, said that the woman, who identified herself as Louis Nighat Akhtar Bhano, was detained by the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Sabroom railway station and later handed over to the local police station for interrogation.

“It is suspected that she came with the intention to cross over to the other side of the border to Bangladesh. Police and other security agencies are interrogating her to gather more information about her movements and intentions,” Sarkar said.

Preliminary interrogation revealed that the woman had escaped from a jail i

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