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Police on Tuesday arrested a reporter of an Itanagar-based newspaper in Dibrugarh in upper Assam on charges of trafficking illegal substance, with the total number of persons arrested for drug-peddling in the district going up to six in the past one week.
“We have arrested one Rahul Verma (30), who claimed to be a reporter or Dawnlit Post, a daily newspaper published from Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and recovered from his possession a sizeable quantity of brown sugar while he was trafficking the illegal substance in Dibrugarh,” Dibrugarh Additional SP Saurabh Jyoti Saikia said.
The Additional SP also said that Verma, from whom the police also seized a reporter’s identity card issued by Dawnlit Post in Itanagar, had confessed that he used to regularly traffick brown sugar to Arunachal Pradesh. “Based on his statement, efforts are on to arrest other drug dealers and traffickers involved in the network,” Saikia said.
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Meanwhile, Dawnlit Post editor Dakter Esse, in a statement issued in Itanagar said Rahul Verma was not associated in any manner with the newspaper. “It has come to the notice of this daily through Assam-based TV news channels that one Rahul Verma, purportedly a journalist of The Dawnlit Post, Itanagar, has been arrested by police in Dibrugarh, for possession of drugs. Verma is not, and was never associated with The Dawnlit Post in any manner. This daily has never issued any identity card to Rahul Verma – or for that matter to anyone who is not an employee of this daily – at any time, in any shape or form,” Esse in a statement said.
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