Operation Trident: 18 arrests, Shah says

This note is verified as a report of what Home Minister Amit Shah said. The series is NP NOW. The carousel was posted at 10:48 am IST on 25 October 2026. The stamp is VERIFIED. The cover is an NP graphic. No photograph is used. The figures below are his claims, carried by Hindustan Times and The Times of India from a post he put on X on 25 October. They are not a court finding.

According to Shah, simultaneous anti-drug raids took place on 23 October at 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur. The name he used for that action is Operation Trident. According to Shah, 18 people were arrested. The names of those 18 have not been made public, the caption says. This note does not name them, and it does not link any of them to a group.

According to Shah, the target of the operation was an alleged international drug network working across the border of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh. That is his account of the target. It is not a finding, in this note, about who the arrested people are. He called that cross-border route the "Death Triangle Corridor". Hindustan Times is the report named for that phrase. The phrase is his label for the route.

The numbers he gave, and which both papers carried, are these. According to Shah, hawala transactions of about ₹100 crore were found. According to Shah, 1,424 bank accounts were frozen. According to Shah, property worth ₹17.82 crore was attached. According to Shah, 500 detonators and ₹12 lakh in cash were seized. The brief records the detonators and the cash in the Hindustan Times report of what he said. A recheck of both papers at about 10:50 am IST on 25 October found that the figures matched. Hindustan Times had been updated at 9:44 am IST. The Times of India had been updated at 9:56 am IST. Shah's post on X is used here only as those two papers quote it. The package did not fetch the post itself, and this note does not add a link that was not in the source list.

According to Shah, central agencies and the police of the three states carried out the operation together. He did not, in the lines used here, name a single agency beyond "central agencies". This note does not add an agency name. According to Shah, the operation is part of a mission to end every drug network by 31 December 2029. That date is his stated aim. This note does not say the aim has been met, and it does not say the alleged network has been ended.

Read together, the lines that stay inside his statement are these. The day of the raids is 23 October. The places are 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur. The name of the action is Operation Trident. The arrest figure is 18, according to Shah. The alleged target, in his words, is an international drug network on the India-Myanmar-Bangladesh border, a route he called the "Death Triangle Corridor". The money lines, according to Shah, are about ₹100 crore in hawala transactions, 1,424 bank accounts frozen, and ₹17.82 crore in property attached. The seizure line, according to Shah, is 500 detonators and ₹12 lakh in cash. The people he credits with the operation are central agencies and the police of the three states. The horizon he names is 31 December 2029. None of those lines is a court finding. The sources named on the carousel are his post on X, Hindustan Times and The Times of India.