Pakistani Woman Caught in Tripura, Drug Links Found

• By Thetripurapost Desk, Sabroom
• Oct 12, 2025
• 1150

A 65-year-old Pakistani woman was arrested at Sabroom Railway Station in southern Tripura on Saturday night for allegedly entering India illegally and exhibiting suspicious behaviour, officials said on Sunday.

The woman, identified as Louis Nighat Akhtar Bhano, wife of Mohammad Golaf Faraj from Sheikhupura district in Pakistan’s Punjab province, was detained by the Government Railway Police (GRP) after arriving on the Kanchanjunga Express from Siliguri.

According to a senior police officer, the woman initially identified herself as “Saheena Parveen” from Delhi’s Purani Basti and claimed to be an Indian citizen. However, she failed to produce valid identification documents. Police later discovered Pakistani contact numbers concealed in folded paper tied around her waist.

During interrogation, the woman confessed to being a Pakistani national and admitted to having a criminal past. She revealed that she had travelled to Nepal 12 years ago for drug trafficking, was arrested in 2014 with one kilogram of brown sugar, and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in Kathmandu Jail.

Police said she escaped from the Nepalese prison last month amid unrest in the country. About two weeks ago, she re-entered India with the help of an agent, hoping to return to Pakistan via Bangladesh through West Bengal or Tripura.

 

When she failed to cross the border in West Bengal, she travelled to Tripura as directed by the agent and reached Sabroom, near the India-Bangladesh border.

Tripura Police and central intelligence agencies are interrogating her further to trace her associates and understand her cross-border links.

Tripura shares an 856-kilometre-long border with Bangladesh, making it one of the most sensitive states in the Northeast for illegal infiltration, smuggling, and human trafficking.