“Assam: Imam of mosque arrested in Barpeta District; Drugs and cash seized”, Organiser, June 21, 2023:

“By far, it has been proved that thousands of Bangladesh-origin Muslims have been involved in the drug trade in Assam. The number of arrests by police in the last two years in the state has numerous pieces of evidence to justify this claim. Not only in Assam, Muslim drug peddlers have been arrested in large numbers in Manipur, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

This time, the Imam of a mosque in the Barpeta district of Assam was arrested with drugs and cash by police on June 20. Barpeta police arrested the imam with a large quantity of drugs while he was on his way to deliver the contraband.

The arrested person has been identified as Arshaduz Zaman, an imam of a mosque in the Dhan Bandha area in Barpeta district. He was on his way to deliver drugs to Danakuchi on a bike (AS 01 AU 2917) when police arrested him…..”

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