Sonitpur (Assam) [India], March 23 (HBTV): In a joint operation, Assam police and Nagaland police have arrested Bahar Uddin, who authorities said is a most wanted narcotics drug trafficking kingpin in North East India, from Assam's Sonitpur district.  

The alleged drug trafficker hails from ‘Jeliagrong’ in Dimapur of Nagaland.         

According to police, a joint team of Sonitpur district police and Nagaland police launched an operation at a house of one Nurja Khatun of Thelamara in Sonitpur district.

‘During the operation, the police team apprehended one person, namely Md. Bahar Uddin. He was then handed over to Nagaland police,’ a senior Sonitpur district police officer said.  

Nagaland police said two of Uddin's associates, one from Dimapur and another from Imphal, have also been arrested. 

"Bahar Uddin is wanted in multiple known cases registered across the region and has been running a major drug network spread over many states and involved in financing, procuring, transportation, and sale of sunflower, ganja, and other dangerous drugs," Nagaland police said in a press statement.  

‘Bahar Uddin had been using multiple aliases, multiple identities, multiple phone numbers, and numerous hideouts to carry on the trafficking in narcotics and numerous people have been associated with him in the conspiracies to traffic banned substances like ganja, brown sugar etc in the region. He has tried to evade the law enforcement agencies for many years,’ the statement read.      

(ANI) This is a syndicated news feed. HBTV has edited it for clarity.