Dimapur, July 22: Dimapur police have registered 25 cases under the NLTP Act and arrested 27 persons in the last fortnight and seized an approximate 19000 bottles/ 1600 cases of assorted illegal liquors worth several lakhs in the market from various establishments, joints and while being illegally transporting.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police and PRO stated that following the seizure of 1195 cases of illegal liquor consignment on July 19 by the East Police Station, personnel of Diphupar Police station on July 20 seized another consignment of 140 cases. The consignment was being transported in one Mahindra Scorpio bearing registration NL-06 2641 which was intercepted after hot pursuit. One person identified as Khetoka Assumi, son of Hovikhu Assumi, has been arrested in connection to the seizure.
The Women Cell also on July 21 seized an approximately 22 cases of assorted liquors after a place was raided at Zeliangrong Colony, Dhobinala, and arrested one person.
On July 20, the Anti Extortion Team (AET) under Zone-I of the Dimapur police arrested two persons from Blue Hill area and recovered one .22 pistol. They were identified as Omega Awomi and Habibur Rahman, both hailing from Burma Camp, Dimapur. Further investigation is under progress at the East Police Station.
Again on July 20, the Anti Extortion Team (AET) under Zone-II of the Dimapur police arrested one person identified as Tokiho Chishi after he was found collecting illegal tax from the fish vendors in New Market area. A case has been registered with the East Police Station and investigation was on in this regard.
Police seizes one kg brown sugar
In yet another major haul, the Narcotics Cell, PHQ, Nagaland, detected and seized about 1 Kg of Brown Sugar from a Bihar bound bus and arrested one person in this connection.
According to the SP (Crime) & PRO Nagaland Police, M Tungoe, the price of the seized smack in the international market was estimated at about Rs 1 crore. The accused has been identified as Raman Kumar hailing from Motihari district of Bihar.
On being interrogated, the accused revealed that the consignment was to be collected by an unknown person once the bus reached its destination. A regular case has been registered and thorough investigation is on.
In another incident, a team from Nagaland police arrested one accused from Kolkata involving in Ponzi scam. The accused identified as Chandan Sinha Roy was in the Board of Directors of Ever Light Realcon Infrastructure Limited (ERIL), which was involved in duping/ cheating hundreds of depositors and swindling crores of rupees.
An SIT was set up for thorough investigation of the case and charge sheet has been filed against 10 accused so far. Earlier, the SIT had arrested one Biplap Kumar Dey from Jharkhand, another accused in the case.
