Silchar, Mar 5: Assam’s Dholai Police have recovered over 13 kg of gunpowder and 2900 detonators from Assam’s Cachar district near the state’s border with Mizoram.
Police recovered the explosives buried underground inside a house near the Assam-Mizoram border.
Based on specific inputs, Police launched an operation in that area and recovered the explosives. However, the owner of the house managed to escape during the operation.
Investigations have revealed that the house where the explosives were recovered is located in Bhaga area under Dholai police station in Cachar, is owned by Salim Uddin Choudhary, a local businessman.
However in the past, police have seized large amounts of drugs from the Bhaga area of Cachar with most of the consignments coming from neighbouring, Mizoram. Interestingly Choudhary has not made himself available to the police to aid the investigation.
