3 Arrested at Kamjong

 

At least 3  arrested For Drug Related Case

The Dawn Tantak

UKHRUL,7 Aug' 23: AT least three drug smugglers were apprehended  by  the 24 Assam Rifles, Gamnom on 4 August 2023 for carrying brown sugar. And the three accused were handed over to Shangshak Police Station, Ukhrul District.

According to Ukhrul Police, the three persons were brought and handed over to Shangshak Police Station on 4th August 2023 at around 08:00pm. Accordingly, formal arrest was made by the Shangshak Police Station at around 09:00pm on the same day. 

Investigating Officer, SI. S. Raingam informed that the accused persons were apprehended by 24 Assam Rifles at one of the checkpost situated at Gamnom. The security personnel while checking the vehicle  (Tata Truck) bearing Registration No. MNO4C 0671, unearthed 39 soap-case (approximately 460 grams) of brown sugar drug in the vehicle. The truck was reportedly coming from Huimin Thana, Myanmar border 31 kms from Kamjong HQ carrying 12 buffaloes for transportation towards Dimapur.

According to their identity card, the three accused has been identified as Asebe Dime (41 years) son of N. Jailang of Saijang Zalukei, Nagaland, Milan Ali (41 years) son of Shaban Ali of Karai Kheti Bazaar, Barpeta, Assam and Sanju Choudhury (38 years) son of Ajit Choudhury of Masjid Gali, PO-Noonmati, PS- Chandmari, Guwahati, Assam.

In this regard, Shangshak Police Station had registered an FIR No. 03(08)2023/SSK-PS U/S: 21(c)/29/60(3) ND&PS Act. According to Ukhrul Police the main accused Adebe Dime alias Mataimi AS. son of Joyson AS of Old Wahong, Ukhrul District, Manipur, truck driver Milan Ali and second driver Sanju Choudhury were produced to Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ukhrul through video conference  and were remanded to police custody for 7 days (till 11 August 2023).

Investigating Officer, SI. S. Raingam informed that medical check up to the three accused were  carried out at Ukhrul District Hospital on 5 August 2023 and the three accused will be taken to Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC), Imphal for further necessary interrogation. He asserted that details can be ascertained only after the joint interrogation, their contact and their destination.

With the unrest in Manipur, the road from  Huimin Thana via Kamjong -Ukhrul is the new route for smuggling drugs to other state of India? Are some of the traders who are ferrying buffaloes for meat consumption and other commodities from the Myanmar border taking undue advantage of their new found rout the denizen begin questioning their modus operanti.

Meanwhile,the Raizan Traders Association (RTA), Kamjong District, Manipur lauds the yeomanship  of the Assam Rifles in apprehending drugs at Gamnom check post, Kamjong district on 4th Aug 2023.

It is a known fact that the RTA has been working tirelessly to create an
environment of healthy and friendly business relations across Indo-Myanmar communities at Kamjong district.
However, a blot of such illicit trade transactions paralysed the normal trading culture which is built in ages.
To show our co-operation and effort in eradicating drug menace, the RTA stands with the state agencies ' War on Drugs' and entire communities by condemning those involved in such contraband business said Eno. SD.Phareipam the president of Raizan Traders Association .