Three Manipur based drug peddlers were apprehended and subsequently another three Assam based peddlers, who were supposed to receive the consignment, were also apprehended from Sachika hotel at Amingaon.
In a shameful incident, the police constable, identified as 50-year-old Shivesh Sen Gupta, was on night patrol duty when CCTV footage showed him stealing a sack of onions from a parked vehicle at a godown in ward 5 of Dhubri town.
Interestingly, the police constable has no idea about the CCTV camera installed in the godown. The theft took place around 3 a.m., when there was no one in the godown.
The tanker, registered as NL01AG-5508 and originally intended for transporting petroleum products, was found to be concealing a massive quantity of dry marijuana (ganja).
AKHAF’s General secretary, Manuel Marak, said the Assam government promised to resolve the issue of damage to tombs in the village graveyard by the Assam police and to punish the concerned personnel involved in the crime.