Crackdown on Drugs: Dispur Police held 5, Rs 3.7 lakh Seized

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The assam police crackdown on drugs continues in the city as five persons were arrested with drugs here in separate operations. The Dispur Police has arrested a youth named Bhargab Choudhury with brown sugar concealed in 4 vials from Forest Gate in the Hengrabari on Friday. Rs 3,70,000 was also seized from his possession.

Meanwhile, in a joint operation by Guwahati Crime Branch and Gorchuk Police, a peddler named Rafikul Islam (25) and his wife Sultana Parbin (25) was arrested with 7.90 grams of drugs. The duo was arrested during a raid conducted at their rented house at Sundarbori, Jalukbari.

In this regard a case has been registered at Garchuk PS vide case no-374/2021 U/S-22(b) of NDPS Act.

In another incident, a mother-son duo was arrested from the Dwarandha area on Thursday night by the Dispur Police. The duo has been identified as Saptan Begum and Abdul Mannan. The police have recovered around 14 grams of brown sugar and several empty vials from the duo.

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