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Assam: Couple arrested with ganja from a passenger train in Karimganj

| @indiablooms | Jul 02, 2021, at 02:58 pm

Guwahati: Railway police have seized a large quantity of ganja from a passenger train in Assam’s Karimganj district.

Railway police officials said the recovered ganja were kept hidden in a teddy bear by a couple who were also arrested.

According to the reports, Badarpur GRP and RPF jointly conducted a search operation in the Agartala-Silchar passenger train at Badarpur junction in Karimganj district on Wednesday evening and detained a couple for their suspected movement.

“The passenger train was coming from Agartala towards Silchar. We had recovered six packets of ganja which were kept hidden in a teddy bear and also recovered three more packets of ganja from a woman's purse. We had recovered nine packets of ganja in possession from them,” a GRP official said.

Later, Railway police had arrested the couple and they were identified as Jaga Devi and Dharmendra Burma.


(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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