Maligaon, Nov 04: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of N.F. Railway have recovered contraband items like cannabis, drugs, whiskey and gold bar worth about Rs. 68.95 lakh during 9th to 27th October, 2019. The contrabands were recovered during regular checks and special drives at various stations and trains over N.F. Railway.
The RPF of NFR also apprehended six persons involved in theft of passenger belongings, four persons for trafficking contraband goods, three persons involved in touting activities, three human traffickers with rescue of three minor girls and one person involved in IPC offence at various stations and trains over N.F. Railway.
During this period, the RPF also rescued 47 children at different stations over N.F. Railway and handed them over to their respective guardians or NGO’s like Child Line. RPF of N.F. Railway conducted various drives against transportation of contraband goods through trains over N.F. Railway and successfully recovered the contraband articles along with apprehend of involved persons.
Last Month that is Octboer , CIB and CPDS team of Katihar apprehended one person during checking in train No. 55703 Malda Court-Katihar Passenger and recovered 52 bottles whiskey worth Rs. 10440/-. One such incident on October 19, 2019, RPF and CIB team of Guwahati jointly conducted checking in train No. 15960 DN Kamrup Express at Guwahati Railway Station and recovered 32.8 kg cannabis and 305 gram morphine valued Rs. 23.64 lakh with apprehend of two persons.
Another incident on October 20, 2019, Dog Squad of RPF/Guwahati conducted checking in train No. 12423 DN Rajdhani Expresss at Guwahati Railway Station and recovered 52 kg cannabis worth about Rs. 6 lakh. Moreover, on October 25, 2019, CPDS team of RPF/Alipurduar and RPF of Fakiragram jointly conducted drive against anti-social elements in train No. 15769 Alipurduar-Lumding Intercity from Chautara to Fakiragram Railway Station and apprehended one person with recovery of one piece gold bar weighing about 1.25 kgs worth around Rs. 3920800/- .
During checking at Guwahati Railway Station on October 14, 2019, CIB team of RPF/Guwahati apprehended one person with recovery of two mobile phones. CIB team of RPF/Lumding during checking in train No. 15666 DN- B.G. Express between Lumding and Hojai, on 17th October, 2019, apprehended two persons who administered sedative drugs to a passenger for looting the belongings.
The RPF also recovered one empty bottle of beverage and cash Rs. 1220/- from their possession. RPF and GRP personnel of Badarpur on October 22, 2019 jointly conducted checking at Badarpur Railway station and apprehended one person with recovery of one lady bag contained one ATM card, some documents and cash Rs. 2 thousand. Moreover, on October 24, 2019, RPF of Guwahati conducted checking in train No. 14055 DN- Brahmaputra Mail at Guwahati Railway Station and apprehended two persons involved in pick pocketing and recovered cash Rs. 6320/-.
