Guwahati, Oct 29: In a major development, Assam police recovered over 60 bicycles, half of which were meant for distribution among students of state-aided schools in Bengal, early on Saturday from a village close to the Cooch Behar border.
On Friday, a team from Tamarhat police station, which is in Assam’s Dhubri district, raided village Musalmanpara on a tip-off to recover the cycles. The cycles were found around 2.30am on Saturday.
Sanjoy Bodo, the officer-in-charge of Tamarhat police station, said, “We recovered 61 bicycles during the raid. Around 33 cycles are of Sabuj Sathi and bear the logo. These are brand-new cycles. We have detained two persons in this connection and are trying to find out how they got the cycles and their plans with them”.
The recovery prompted questions on whether such cycles were illegally transported to Assam or were bought from students who received them from the Bengal state government.
Two people were detained, identified as Aziz Sheikh and Ali Hossain, residents of the same village.
The teaching fraternity in Cooch Behar sounded surprised at the development.
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