Foreign liquors seized in Nagaon
Nagaon: A team of Flying Squad comprising of Nagaon police and Excise personnel today seized 42 cartoons of foreign liquer at Sialmari from a Tata Magic vehicle bearing no. AS 02 BC 7095. According to sources , the illegal liquors were being secretly transported to Kachua , Kampur by a man identified as Anuwar Hussain. Sources further said that the seized illegal liquors were brought to Kachua by a political leader with an aim to distribute among voters for the ensuing Lok Sabha election.
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RAHA: A local woman died in Raha when she was knocked down by a car in the convoy of a minster on Monday spreading shock and anger across the state. The bizarre incident took place in the morning when water resources minister Keshab Mahanta’s convoy was on the way to Nagaon. As the convoy arrived in Saragaon, the woman tried to quickly cross the four-lane highway where one the cars knocked down the woman. Identified as Minu Devi, the inhabitant of Pub Saragaon village died on the spot. But the local residents here blamed it all on the minister’s convoy for rash driving which resulted in the tragic incident.
The Raha police have achieved success when they intercepted a huge quantity of ganja during the last couple of months. The police on Wednesday burnt down a huge heap of ganja worth ₹20,000 at an open space. These, mostly, were intercepted from the trains at the Chapormukh Junction. These were burnt down at Titaimari in presence of railway SP Pradeep Pujari along with thr excise department officials.
Despite stringent measures in the banking transactions a section of customers has been complaining mysterious disappearance of money from their accounts. In yet another bizarre incident, a customer in Roha State Bank of India claimed to have lost money from her saving account. According to what she has complained before the bank authority, Jayanti Bhuyan, the account holder said that she somebody had withdrawn money from her saving account bearing No11689552300. As she came to the bank to update her passbook,Bhuyan on Wednesday found it strange to have seen that ₹59,000 was withdrawn from her account on Tuesday which she was not in the know. ...
In a major achievement, police recovered stolen goods worth more than ₹30 lakh during an vigorous search operation in Roha on Wednesday. Acting on a tip off, a team of police led by Nagaon circle inspector Ranjit Moran raided the residence of Phoorkan Ali at Monipurtup village where the huge heap of stolen goods were recovered from the granary. Ali, himself is believed to have been the gang member involved in a number of robbery cases on the National Highway No 37. Now policemen probing the case have been fanning in search of Ali who is absconding. The goods found in Ali’s possession include one Samsung 138.7 c.m television set worth of Rs. 2,90,000 , 160 piece Samsung...
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One person died another sustained serious injury when the bike which they were riding on collided on a truck from the backside in Nagaon district on Friday. The incident took place early in the morning on the National Highway in Raha. Eye witnesses told Assam Times that the bikers who were coming from the Guwahati side speedily hit the truck. “Both the truck and the two wheeler caught fire where one of the bikers died on the spot. We came to their rescue and the seriously injured one was rushed to the hospital,” said Saurav Kakoty who claimed to have seen the accident. Another eyewitness Bashab Borthakur said,”the moment the bikers hit the truck, fire erupted...
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The Nagaon police probing the recent assault on a group of former rebels, have arrested two more youths on Thursday. Identified as Pintu Das and Pranjal Bora, the due were said to have been hired by the tractor dealer Raju Das to thrash the former rebels. Police interrogation is going on. On the other hand, the Assam government on Wednesday transferred additional superintendent of police Sanjeev Saikia to Baska in the same capacity following the allegations that he also beat up the former rebels who were raising funds to feed the flood hit people.
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