After the arrest of Assam-based drug lord Haji Samsul Haque Talukdar alias Pakhi Miyan from Durgapur in Burdwan on June 21, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is busy preparing the court case to make it impossible for him to get a bail.

Miyan is suspected to be behind the killing of DRI officer Tarun Dutta in Guwahati on September 12, 2006.

Dutta (48) was on his way to office when two assailants gunned him down. Nearly 18 months before his death, Dutta was instrumental in making siezures of 80 tonnes of ganja valued at Rs 40 crore, allegedly belonging to Pakhi Miyan. The case was handed over to the CBI.

“Three years have passed since our officer was killed, but no action has been taken. If Miyan is released on bail, it will be a slap in the face of the administration,” senior DRI officials said.

Miyan, they said, was one of the biggest drug barons in the Northeast who controlled the entire chain of operations from procurement and transport to distribution of drugs at various levels.

Miyan’s arrest in June was his second such arrest in Bengal. In April 2008, he was arrested by West Bengal Police from Baguihati with 10 kg ganja and 200 gram heroin. He was then taken to Guwahati by the Assam Police and lodged in a jail.

Seven months later, however, Miyan faked illness and was admitted to a local hospital in December from where he staged a dramatic escape, after allegedly drugging two policemen on duty outside his hospital room.

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