Four Tripura police personnel, including an inspector, have been arrested for allegedly siphoning off 245 cough syrup bottles from a contraband consignment that had been seized by the authorities.
The four have been identified by the police as Inspector Ajit Debbarma, sub-inspectors Rajendra Reang and Sampa Das -- all of them attached to the Teliamura police station -- and assistant sub-inspector Sachindra Debbarma of the state police’s Special Branch.
They were arrested on Sunday and later suspended, and were produced before a local court on Monday.
A patrol team of Teliamura police personnel had seized a vehicle carrying a consignment of cough syrup on May 20. A video clip from the police station’s CCTV cameras came to light, indicating that personnel illegally removed about 245 bottles of the cough syrup before the seizure was recorded in official documents.
A criminal case was lodged against them under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
