Jharkhand News: Daltonganj police nab youth with opium
THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK Daltonganj, Oct 9: A team of Town Thana led by the SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad and officer…
SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad (second from right) and OC Town Thana Deobrat Prasad (left) briefing newsmen in Daltonganj today
THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Oct 9: A team of Town Thana led by the SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad and officer in charge Deobrat Poddar nabbed a 20-year-old youth who had concealed a little over 260 grams of opium in his left leg shoe that he had worn.
SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad said it was on his frisking that this 260 grams of ready-to-use opium was found tucked in his left leg shoe.
Arrested youth studied only till class 3
Police officer Poddar said the arrested youth who has been identified as Israel Alam alias Golden Alam of village Jamna under the Tarhassi police station in Palamu is illiterate as he told police he just could reach class 3 level in his village school.
SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad further said the arrested youth claims to be a new entrant but the police will try to find out his antecedence.
Golden Alam is just a peddler reminded Poddar.
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Police looking for opium seller
Police are looking for another man Kalam Miyan who also hails from the same Jamna village. Kalam was out looking for the addict to sell opium.
SP Reeshma Ramesan had got a tip-off about two suspicious people loitering around Kacharwa Dam around 1.30 pm on October 8 following which town police swung into action quite promptly.
SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad said the tip-off was most precise. But the initial body search was yielding no result.
SDPO Sadar said when our team made a body search of this youth we didn’t find anything. It was his shoe that unfolded his face of crime.
