From Our Special Correspondent
GUWAHATI, Sep 15: Assam Police on Monday foiled a bid to smuggle subsidised government rice to Meghalaya, seizing a truck loaded with the smuggled items and arresting two persons from Panbari area under Gauripur police station in Dhubri district.
The arrested persons have been identified as Dhananjoy Hajong and Ranjit Hajong, a police official from Gauripur police station told The Shillong Times on Monday evening.
“Acting on a tip-off in the early hours of Monday, a police team intercepted the rice sack-laden truck, bearing registration number AS17 C 9152, in the Panbari area and found about 450 sacks of government-subsidised rice,” an officer from Gauripur police station, Mahadeb Bagchi, confirmed.
The smuggled sacks were reportedly repackaged, apparently to evade detection by police, during their transportation to Meghalaya.
Police seized the truck and the consignment, besides arresting two persons.
The arrested persons are being interrogated as police anticipate more arrests during the course of investigation to unearth the larger nexus behind the subsidised rice supply racket involving the two neighbouring states.
