Drug cartel busted while travelling from Nagaon to Lakhimpur

A Correspondent

Biswanath Chariali: Sootea Police on Wednesday night busted an inter-State drug cartel and seized a car besides arresting two persons as they were travelling from Nagaon to Lakhimpur.

Acting on a tip-off, one i20 car (blue colour) with registration no AS-07M 8922 was detained on Wednesday night under Sootea PS in Biswanath district and two drug peddlers were apprehended while they were on the way back from Nagaon to Lakhimpur.

The apprehended persons were identified as Jiten Biswas (32) of No. 2 Parbatipur, Harmuti village, Laluk and Sanjay Bhattacharyya (22) of Durga Mandir, Laluk. Two syringes, two small containers- one empty and other one half filled- with suspected heroin were seized from their possession. During further search assisted by an experienced mechanic in the presence of independent witnesses, 15 plastic boxes were found concealed in the frame of the front left door of the vehicle. Inside each box, packet containing suspected heroin was found. The 15 packets weighed 180 grams. Police claimed that the market value of the heroin was around Rs 15 lakh.

Jiten Biswas is a veteran drug peddler who was arrested by Sipajhar PS in 2015 on charges of carrying 8,000 intoxicating tablets. He was also arrested in Naharlagun (Arunachal Pradesh) along with four others on charges of possessing a 9 mm pistol and for carrying 85 grams of heroin. During initial interrogation, he confessed that he purchased the seized heroin for a sum of Rs 7 lakh from Kaliabor area. The other accused was also in jail and was released recently because of COVID-19 pandemic.

The operation, interrogation and investigation was led by DSP (HQ) along with OC, Sootea PS and staff.

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