POLICE ACTION

Cooch Behar SP Mr Devendra Prakash Singh with the seized six packets of brown sugar and three mobile phones. At Kotowali police station in Cooch Behar on Sunday.

 

Heroin seized, 3 arrested

 

COOCH BEHAR, OCT. 26: Acting on a tip-off a police team from Cooch Behar Kotowali Police Station arrested three persons from Kesav Road in Cooch Behar last night and seized a bag of brown sugar from their possession. There were six small packets of the contraband item in the bag weighing about 450-gram. From the label on the bag it is suspected that the seized item is 'Made in Thailand'. The arrested trio were identified as Dulal Sarkar of Falakata and Romiz Lama and Binod Chhetry of Kalchini.

 

The contraband drug has sneaked into Cooch Behar either from Bangladesh or Nepal and it is on its way to be smuggled out to a covert destination, a senior police officer suspects. The police are conducting an inquiry into the matter and the actual origin of the contraband. Interrogation is going on to unearth from the arrested three the whereabouts of the other members of the drug peddler gang operative in this region, police said. []