Is the drug menace raising its head again in the Asansol industrial area? One trafficker from Birbhum arrested

Acting on a tip-off received from a confidential source on Sunday night, the Jamuria police station conducted a successful operation and arrested a drug smuggler along with a huge quantity of brown sugar. The arrested accused has been identified as Sk. Aptar. According to police sources, he was detained from Boijantipur village under the Jamuria police station. On the night of the incident, a special police team was lying in wait in the area. Upon detaining Sk. Aptar on suspicion and conducting a search, approximately 51 grams of brown sugar was recovered from him. The current international market value of the recovered drug is estimated to be around five lakh rupees. Preliminary interrogation and police sources reveal that the arrested Sk. Aptar hails from the Sadaipur police station area in the neighboring Birbhum district. Doubts persist regarding exactly from whom he procured such a large quantity of drugs and to which buyer in the Jamuria or Asansol industrial area from the Birbhum side he intended to sell it. Sensation-triggering information is emerging from the police interrogation. Has the illegal drug trade and its prevalence recently been on the rise again in this industrial area? This question is now circulating among informed circles. Investigating officers are examining the matter with utmost seriousness. To find out whether a major smuggling ring or an influential syndicate is involved behind this drug trade, the accused is being interrogated continuously. On Monday, amidst tight police security, the arrested Sk. Aptar was produced before the Asansol District Court. According to court sources, the police appealed to the court to take the accused into their custody in order to trace the primary source of the drugs and find out who else is involved in this trade. Sunday's incident has created widespread sensation in Jamuria and its surrounding vast areas. Local conscious residents have praised this police success and simultaneously made a strong demand to further intensify anti-drug police patrolling and operations in the area to curb crime.