Silchar: Four suspected drug peddlers, including three from Bihar and one from Meghalaya, were apprehended with around 19 kilograms of bhang and 19 grams of brown sugar by railway protection force (RPF) and crime intelligence branch (CIB) from the Agartala – Rani Kamlapati Express at Manderdisa rail station in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Monday.
As per information gathered from various sources, RPF and CIB personnel, based on specific inputs, conducted an operation in the Agartala – Rani Kamlapati Express (01666 down) on Monday after the train reached Manderdisa railway station, around 194km from Silchar.
Four suspected drug peddlers were caught by the personnel from a general compartment with five bags containing around 19 kilograms of bhang and one soap case containing 19 grams of brown sugar.
The arrested drug peddlers were identified as Pranab Kumar Singh, Shankar Mahato, Abhesh Roy and Milton Chakraborty. Milton is from Meghalaya’s Shillong while the other three belong from Bihar. They were quizzed for some time and later taken to Lumding for further legal proceedings, the sources said.
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It may be mentioned that complaints about the smuggling of intoxicating substances via the Badarpur – Lumding railway route had been pouring in from various quarters. The Northeast Frontier Railway has taken the complaints seriously and carried out many operations in which drugs were seized and drug peddlers were caught in the last few months.
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