Journalist arrested with brown sugar

A journalist of an Itanagar-based newspaper was arrested today along with a sizable quantity of banned brown sugar from Assam's Dibrugarh town.
Dibrugarh Superintendent of Police Bir Bikram Gogoi said that Rahul Verma, the reporter, who is the son of Dibrugarh correspondent of a Guwahati based Hindi daily, confessed before the police that he regularly smuggled brown sugar to Arunachal Pradesh,
Along with the banned psychotropic substance a valid identity card of the newspaper was also recovered from his possession, Gogoi said.
Based on his statement, efforts are on to arrest other drug dealers/traffickers in the network, the SP said.

This is the 6th such arrest of drug trafficker after launch of "Operation Drugs Free Dibrugarh" by Dibrugarh Police, he said.
Yesterday five persons, including two girls, were nabbed by police as raids in Guwahati continued against drug addicts and peddlers.

Two drug peddlers were arrested near the MLA Hostel in Dispur with two packets containing 25 gms of suspected drugs, while a couple were apprehended in Krishnanagar of Chandmari here when they were buying narcotics substance from an unidentified peddler who fled away, police said.
Local people had caught a woman and two men from the banks of Brahmaputra and handed them to a battalion camp nearby but the two men fled away, police said.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has voiced deep concern over the rising trend of drug menace in the state and asked the state chief secretary to constitute a task force headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to address the issue of drug abuse.