SILCHAR: A suspected coal mafia leader arrested from south Assam‘s Karimganj district on Friday was shot dead in a police encounter in a village in the nearby Hailakandi district late on Saturday night.
The coal mafia leader, Abdul Ahad Choudhury, was apprehended by Hailakandi (Lala) police from Achimganj in Karimganj district on Friday night in connection with a case related to the illegal transportation of coal to Barak Valley from Meghalaya. Abdul hailed from the Sutarkandi area in Karimganj.
Lala police station’s officer-in-charge A Basumatary said Abdul had escaped from police custody on Saturday morning after being taken to a hospital for a routine medical checkup. Police then tapped into its sources to enab him again and intensified vigil throughout the district. Later in the evening, police got the information that Abdul might travel to the Karimganj district via the Lakhinagar area in Lala. As per the tip-off, police laid a trap in that area, about 58km from Silchar town, and managed to find him at night. Seeing the police, Abdul opened fire and was killed after cops fired in retaliation, Basumatary said.
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