In an encounter on Wednesday night, a ganja smuggler was reportedly injured by the Kokrajhar police.
According to the reports, at around 8 pm on February 16, 2 smugglers identified as Suman Namo and Rahul Sarkar were arrested by the Kokrajhar police. The duo was apprehended after intercepting a truck at Gosaigaon in Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
One hidden compartment containing around 55 packets of ganja which weighed about 350 kilograms was recovered from the truck. The seized ganja had a market value of several crores of rupees.
The truck registration was from Tripura and heading towards Bihar.
Upon the interrogation of the two ganja smugglers, Suman Namo expressed that he kept two packets of ganja hidden near a bifurcated road from the National Highway towards Bhaoraguri in Kokrajhar.
The police team reached the spot along with the smuggler and recovered the consignment.
But to the police’s surprise, the accused snatched a pistol and tried to aim it at the officers. So, in order to save their lives, a police officer immediately fired at the smuggler. The bullet hit the accused in his right leg below the knee. He was again recaptured by the team.
The accused had been sent to the Kokrajhar RNB Civil Hospital for treatment. He was further shifted to the Barpeta Medical College from there.
Moreover, some unknown miscreants had reportedly torched the truck that was seized in order to remove all kinds of evidence.