International car smuggling racket is active in Cachar District for long time. Cachar police arrested three car thieves including the mastermind of the racket. Based on a secret information a special team of Cachar Police conducted an operation at Lakhipur of Assam Manipur border and succeeded to bust the car smuggling racket.
Among the three car thieves, Tanglong Rongmei resident of Rongmei @ Bullet Naga Punji at Kalabil area of Lakhipur, Salman Hussain Laskar resident of Kangali Basti, Pailapool of Lakhipur and Ahad Hussain Laskar resident of Sonabarighat of Cachar District.
Two theft vehicle has been recovered in this operation. Among the recovered vehicles one is Maruti Omni bearing registration number AS-10/5330 and one is TATA Intra bearing registration number AS-11/EC-3044.
Police Superintendent Numal Mahatta says that Tanglong Rongmei @ Bullet is the mastermind of the car theft racket active in Cachar district. He used to sell the cars to the neighbouring states Manipur and Mizoram theft from the three districts of Barak Valley Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. He was most wanted for Cachar Police.
Numal Mahatta says police interogation is going on and police will continue the operation against the active car theft racket .