India, Sept. 23 -- Over 2,700 drug peddlers and 248 drug consumers were arrested from 2022-23 till 2024-25, said Tripura chief minister Manik Saha while speaking on the last day of the autumn session of the state legislative assembly on Tuesday.

Saha, also holds the portfolio of the Home Department, while replying to a question moved by Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman, said that total 2,729 drug peddlers were arrested till now and another 28 having involvement in drug peddling cases are yet to be arrested as they are absconding.

Later, he said that the rate of conviction in Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) cases was 11.7 % in 2022 and 2023 and the subsequent year, it was 5%.

He further added that after seizing contraban...