KOLKATA, JUNE 22 : Officers of Special Task Force (STF) of city police arrested Assam-based drug mafia Samsul Haque Talukdar alias Pakhi Mian today on charges of murder and drug peddling from Nayimnagar near Durgapur.
Pakhi wanted for the murder of a Revenue Intelligence official Tarun Kumar. He was earlier arrested from Baguiati on 22 April, 2008 on charges of murder and drug peddling.
He was taken to Assam on transit remand, and later he fled from a hospital in Guwahati. Since then Assam Police and CBI officers had started a hunt for him.
A senior STF officer said that acting on a tip-off they raided a residence, where Talukdar had taken shelter. Police said he came to Durgapur a few months ago and had rented a residence for his living. Police said he would be taken to Assam on transit remand.
Arms seized in Rajarhat
A huge cache of arms was seized during a raid by a police team in Rajarhat, Newtown, in North 24-Parganas this morning. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house of Mr Ajit Naskar, a resident of Thakurdari in Rajarhat, around 11.30 am today and seized the arms and ammunition, which were hidden underground in the backyard.
Mr Naskar was detained and is being interrogated, said Mr Supratim Sarkar, Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas. Police said as many as 1,600 rounds of live cartridge, 18 rifles, three 9-mm pistols, four revolvers and a carbine were seized during the raid, led by Mr Kousik Banerjee, officer-in-charge of Newtown police station.Opposition parties, including the Trinamul Congress and the Congress, alleged that Mr Naskar is a CPI-M activist and suspected that the arms were stockpiled for use by CPI-M goons during the Rajarhat-Gopalpur civic poll on 28 June. Opposition parties staged a demonstration demanding Mr Naskar's immediate arrest. Denying the charges, the CPI-M alleged that it was a conspiracy hatched by the Trinamul Congress before the civic poll.
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