07-19-2006, 10:09 AM
<b>Muslim cleric held with brown sugar in Assam</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.
<b>45-year-old Imamuddin, a Maulana of a local mosque, was arrested on Tuesday from Dibrugarh town with the contraband</b>, they said.
Interrogation is progressing and police is probing his possible links with any fundamentalist organisations active in the state, they said.
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<b>45-year-old Imamuddin, a Maulana of a local mosque, was arrested on Tuesday from Dibrugarh town with the contraband</b>, they said.
Interrogation is progressing and police is probing his possible links with any fundamentalist organisations active in the state, they said.
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