Cattle Smuggler Mozammil Haque Injured Following Exchange of Fire with Assam Police

GUWAHATI: A cattle smuggler was injured in police firing while trying to escape custody in Barpeta district on Wednesday night.

The smuggler named Mozammil Haque was injured while he tried to attack police to escape from the custody. Haque surrendered before Barpeta Police on Tuesday. He was under Howly police custody for 10 days. The accused was immediately sent to Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital, Barpeta.

"One Mozammil Haque arrested by @Barpeta_Police in connection with cattle smuggling tried to to use force and escape from lawful custody. The police had to use fire arms to prevent escape. He has been grievously injured and shifted to hospital," tweeted special DGP GP Singh.

Earlier, while cracking the abduction case of two Karimganj men, police have found out that hume pipes placed along the India-Bangladesh border serves as the most favoured means of illegal transport including cattle smuggling.

As per the received information, the 15-m long hume pipes facilitate convenient passage for illegal infiltrators and cattle smugglers without having to go through the double-layered barbed fences along the international border. The Border Security Forces (BSF) and state police are now working jointly to investigate the matter, police said.

Reportedly, the hume pipes are cleverly placed under the road to drain out rain water in the area. While one end of the pipes opens onto a trench in a garden, the other end navigates the smugglers, cattle and infiltrators to seamlessly cross the border.

It was revealed to the police that trenches were smartly covered with tree branches so as to camouflage and fool security forces. Interestingly, the information was disclosed to the police by two abducted men from the Dalgaon village under Neelam Bazaar Police station in Assam's Karimganj district. The two men, identified as Alim Uddin and Dilwar Hussain, were allegedly abducted and taken to Bangladesh. 

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