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Dimapur, July 29 (EMN): Continuing the fight against transportation of contraband and smuggled goods in trains, the Railway protection force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has recovered contraband goods worth more than INR 94.49 lakh from July 23 till the 27th.
An update from the NFR issued on July 29 informed that the contraband and smuggled items including morphine, liquor, foreign cigarette, ganja, etc. were recovered during regular checks and drives at various stations and trains under NFR.
RPF also apprehended four persons for alleged involvement in transportation of contraband goods.
On July 27, RPF and GRP officials and staff of Guwahati conducted joint drive in train No. 20503 DN (Rajdhani Express) at Guwahati railway station, during which they apprehended two persons with the recovery of 730 grams of banned drugs valued about INR 70 lakh from the said train. The apprehended persons were travelling from Dimapur towards Delhi without journey tickets. The apprehended persons were handed over to OC/GRP/Guwahati for further course of action.
On the same day, RPF of NFR recovered foreign cigarettes worth about INR 7 lakh in different drives conducted in train No. 12423 DN (Rajdhani Express) and apprehended one person who was travelling from Dimapur without any journey ticket for Prayagraj (Allahabad). Also, in another incident, RPF recovered unclaimed liquor valued about INR 59, 000 while conducting checking in train No. 13247 DN (Capital Express) at Bagdogra Railway station.
From July 23 till the 26th, RPF of NFR recovered contraband goods including ganja, liquor etc. worth about INR 16.90 lakh during different checks and drives conducted at Agartala, Dimapur, Dharmanagar, New Coochbehar, Katihar and New Bongaigaon stations. CPDS team of RPF/Katihar also apprehended one person at Katihar with recovery of liquor in a joint checking conducted with GRP of Katihar.
It may be mentioned that RPF of NFR has detected 427 cases of transportation of contraband and smuggled goods from January to June this year and recovered more than INR 16.98 crore. During this period, RPF also apprehended 91 persons involved in transportation of contraband and smuggled goods.