Muslim cleric held with brown sugar in Assam

45-year-old Imamuddin, a Maulana of a local mosque, was arrested on Tuesday from Dibrugarh town with the contraband.

A Muslim cleric has been arrested for allegedly possessing 600 grams of brown sugar, worth about Rs 8 lakh, from an upper Assam town, police said on Wednesday.

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45-year-old Imamuddin, a Maulana of a local mosque, was arrested on Tuesday from Dibrugarh town with the contraband, they said.

Interrogation is progressing and police is probing his possible links with any fundamentalist organisations active in the state, they said.