The Assam Police achieved a major breakthrough in its war against Narco Jihad when they arrested female “Drugs Begums” who are in charge of drug peddling in the North East.
The Assam and Manipur Police apprehended three such drug begums in two days and on Wednesday (October 20), they succeeded in arresting the notorious drug kingpin, Sitara Begum who is known as an old-time drug mafia head and her gang were carrying drugs from Nagaland in a passenger train
Receiving a tipoff the Nagaon police team surrounded the Chaparmukh railway station and apprehended Sitara Begum and her gang members Ainul Haque, Rashidul Haq, and Wadikul Islam in the station and seized Heroin worth 85 Lakhs.
Nagaon SP Anand Mishra said that Begum and her men had a big army of small-time peddlers working for them and would peddle drugs in the rural areas of the Nagaon district.
In another operation by Assam police headed by Sonitpur district police DySP Sudhanya, Suklabaidya and team arrested drug mafia Sumi Das Islam. The police team raided the house of one Sumi Das Islam and seized a huge amount of brown sugar.
Sumi Das Islam operates a drug racket in Sonitpir district with her Love Jihadi husband, Nazrul Islam @ Sunu. The police Team successfully recovered 75 plastic containers containing 13.5 grams of suspected brown sugar each, cash amounting to ₹5900, and four mobile handsets.
In Manipur, the Narcotics and Affairs of Border (NAB) arrested a woman drug peddler from Imphal East district, on Tuesday, and heroin worth ₹72 lakhs was seized from her possession.
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren posted on social media, saying, “Manipur continues to cripple the drug cartels. A combined team of Narcotic Cell, Imphal East Police, and local authorities seized 30 soap cases of heroin powder worth ₹72 lakh from a woman at Yairipok. We will not rest until the drug business has been annihilated.”
Sana Khan, 37, wife of Mohammad Ayub Khan of Yairipok Tulihal Touboku was arrested in Manipur after police received reliable information and heroin powder weighing 360 grams and the price of the seized drugs could be around ₹72 lakh in international market value.
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