The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been successful in recovering contraband articles in 219 cases worth Rs 5.85 crore upto October this fiscal.
The items are cannabis, foreign cigarettes, foreign made clothes, drugs, narcotics, cosmetics, morphine and whiskey . RPF also apprehended 57 persons involved in transportation of contraband goods and prosecuted them as per law.
RPF of NFR detected 21 cases of smuggling of contraband goods through trains over N.F. Railway during October, 2019. During this month, in one such incident, on November 14,2019 at about 11.30 hrs, RPF team while checking at Dimapur railway station against contraband and explosive items recovered 3 unclaimed bags containing 26 packets Ganja (wrapped in polythene), weighing about 40 kgs near platform No. 1.
Value of the recovered Ganja is Rs. 2, 00,000/- approx. Later, the recovered Ganja was handed over to Superintendent of Divisional Custom Preventive Force, Dimapur / Nagaland who registered a case u/s 20 (b) of NDPS Act, dated 15.11.2019.
In another case on 14.11.2019, at about 07.30 hrs, a joint checking by RPF Post, Katihar (East) against suspected packages at Parcel office / Katihar was undertaken.
During checking 5 packages of yellow coloured poly bags and one bundle wrapped with iron net bearing Railway Mark LT-068551/6 ex- SDAH – KIR dated 13.11.2019 were detected.
On opening the suspected packages, (i)12 bottles Royal Stag whisky, 750 ml each, (ii) 18 bottles Royal Challenge whisky, 750 ml each, (iii) 672 pouches “Officers Choice” whisky, 180 ml each & (iv) one bundle of Iron net (15 small bundles) weighing about 36 Kgs were found.
The recovered articles were seized by RPF Sub Inspector Shri A.N. Singh in presence of Sri Sudhir Kumar, CS/I/Parcel/Katihar and other witnesses. Value of the recovered articles is Rs. 85,800/- (approx).
