A drug trafficker was shot at and injured when he allegedly attempted to escape from police custody in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, police said on Friday.
The trafficker was apprehended on Thursday night during routine search in Khatkhoti area under Bokajan sub-division of the district and 40 soap boxes with over half kg of heroin, worth Rs three crore in the international market, was recovered from his possession.
During preliminary interrogation, the arrested person said that he was going to hand over the boxes to a person in Sukhanjan area under Bokajan police station.
A police team accordingly left with him for the area and the trafficker attacked a police official and injured him while attempting to escape.
He jumped out of the vehicle and did not stop even when the police asked him to stop and fired in the air. Subsequently, the police fired at his leg and injured him.
Both the trafficker and the police official injured in the incident were rushed to the Bokajan Civil Hospital for treatment.
Assam has witnessed a spurt in police encounters since Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma assumed office on May 10 last year, with 35 people killed and at least 90 injured in such incidents since then
