Sadhan Mazumdar, a farmer first spotted the mini drone in a paddy field near the Indo-Bangladesh border at Ballamukha, under Bilonia subdivison.
A police team rushed to the spot and seized the drone.
Both the Tripura Police and the Border Security Force (BSF) have launched an investigation to determine the origin of the drone and the purpose behind its flight in the sensitive border region.
Swapan Sen, the police officer leading the investigation, stated that in the morning they received information about a drone found near the residence of Sadhan Mazumdar, a former police constable. Acting on the tip-off, the police team rushed to the location and recovered a drone equipped with a camera.
He further the drone had been seen flying in the area over the past few days, and there is suspicion that it may have originated from the Bangladesh side of the border.Tripura shares 857 km of the total 4,096.7-kilometre-long India-Bangladesh border, and although more than 97 percent of Tripura’s international border on its three sides is fenced with barbed wire.