Police arrests 3 peddlers after conducting raids in Silchar

The Udharbond police on Sunday achieved great success after arresting three drug peddlers by conducting raids at Silchar and Udharbond. The three arrested were identified as Samshul Alam(35) from Dinaspur area of Bangladesh, Sahanur Hussain Barabhaiya(24) of Sonai, Dhanehri and Sirajul Haque Lashkar(31) of Sonai’s New Ramnagar area.

It is learned that, yesterday after receiving the news of a resident of Bangladesh Shamsul Alam approaching the Udharbond by highway from Haflong, Udharbond police laid a trap and was waiting for him at Jhapirband. At around 3:30 pm, Shamsul Alam was spotted arriving in a car and was immediately detained and taken to the police station.

While searching his bag, police recovered 34 containers, 5 grams of heroin and a mobile phone from his possession. Later, after interrogating him, some other drug dealers were found and arrested from Silchar’s Nagatilla area. From the latter, police recovered cash of 39,000. All of them were produced in court and were sent to police custody on Monday.