Udalguri: A person suspected to be involved in an interstate ganja smuggling racket was arrested in Udalguri’s Paharpur on Friday.
A police source said that acting on a tip-off, the Mazbat Police apprehended one person suspected to be a “drug peddler” and seized a huge consignment of ganja weighing 630 kilograms.
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The suspected ganja was being carried in four vehicles near Paharpur village under Lalpool Outpost along the Assam-Arunachal border on Friday morning.
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On intercepting the vehicles, based on certain inputs, few managed to escape leaving the vehicles behind but one person was apprehended by the police.
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He was identified as Ansai Daimari, a resident of Adarsha Bahadur village of Mazbat in Udalguri district.
A case was registered following his apprehension and four vehicles were seized on the spot.
The impounded vehicles, Hyundai I20(AS12V0868) , Hyundai I20(AS06Q0877), Tata Indigo(AS01AF8841) and Maruti Swift Dzire(AR01J2843) are being investigated as well.
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The seized material has been suspected to have been in the dense forest areas along the Assam-Arunachal border.
Mazbat on the other hand is used as the transit route for the ganja or cannabis.
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