Home Guard Borsing Bay was a part of the Karbi Anglong police staff.
Diphu/ Nagaon:
The Assam Police is main the battle on medication from the entrance over the previous couple of months and the honesty of a Home Guard which led to the restoration of unlawful medication value Rs 12 crore has drawn appreciation from the Director General of Police, an officer mentioned.
Borsing Bay was a part of the Karbi Anglong police staff which made the restoration of three kg of top quality meth or Crystal Ice from a bus at a examine gate beneath Dillai police station of the district at round 9.30 pm on Monday.
The bus was en route from Imphal, Manipur, to Guwahati, and the medication had been discovered hidden within the engine of the bus.
When Bay noticed the neatly packed medication, the motive force instantly tried to bribe him with a considerable sum of money, Bitopan Chetia, officer answerable for Dillai police station instructed reporters later.
“But Bay did not accept the bribe and managed to seize the drugs and the bus. Three persons involved in the crime have been arrested,” he added.
Along with the motive force of the bus, two girls from Tamil Nadu have additionally been arrested. Director General of Assam Police Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta has introduced a reward of Rs one lakh for Bay for his act of honesty.
Meanwhile, in one other operation by a staff of neighbouring Nagaon Police, led by the officer answerable for Dhing police station, a priest was arrested and contraband seized from inside a temple on Monday evening.
Based on particular inputs, the operation was launched in a Shiva temple situated at Naam Dumdumia Satra, resulting in the restoration of two packets of hashish (Ganja), every weighing 20 kg, from the temple, police mentioned.
The police arrested the priest, Debakanta Nath, who later confessed that he was recurrently buying the hashish from a peddler particularly Jehirul Islam, who hails from Nagaon. Police have launched an investigation to nab the peddler.
In a separate operation by Nagaon Police on Tuesday on the workplace of a courier service at Fauzadary Patty of Nagaon city, led by ASP Dhrubajyoti Bora, an enormous amount of contraband medication value Rs 45 lakh has been seized.
Police had additionally seized an enormous amount of heroin from a rented home, situated within the Haibargaon city space on Monday evening, and arrested 4 drug peddlers from the spot.
Assam Police has intensified its operations towards unlawful medication and cartels over the past two months, main to very large recoveries and numerous arrests of peddlers.
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