On January 22, a suspected drug peddler was shot at while trying to escape from Police custody in Dhubri District of Assam, reports East Mojo. The drug peddler was arrested along with a large quantity of narcotic substances from Dhubri town. Later on, while leading the Police to nab his accomplices, he tried to escape by assaulting an on-duty Policeman. In retaliation, Police shot at and injured him. According to Police sources, the drug peddler was earlier arrested for various crimes, including involvement in a drug racket, and several cases were registered against him in Dhubri Police Station.
On January 22,a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered buried in the forest behind a botanical garden near Diphu-Lumding Road in Karbi Anglong District of Assam. The arms and ammunition including a .22 rifle, a .303 rifle, a hand-made pistol, several grenades and detonators, magazines and explosives of different kinds which was recovered during the search operation is suspected to planted by ‘chairman’ of Karbi Democratic Liberation Front (KDLF), Jackson Ronghang, who was killed in a gunfight with Security Forces on December 17, 2021.