Tripura’s super Superintendent of Police

Along the winding India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, one name sends shivers down the spines of smugglers and criminals.
Abhijit Saptarshi
Abhijit Saptarshi

GUWAHATI: Along the winding India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, one name sends shivers down the spines of smugglers and criminals. His role in cracking a series of criminal cases—including bank heists, narcotics smuggling and a serial murder mystery—earned him the state’s Policeman of the Year 2016 award this month.

Abhijit Saptarshi, a 2008 IPS officer, was conferred the award by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in Agartala on the occasion of Police Week 2017.

The 37-year-old Superintendent of Police from Mumbai has been curbing inter-state and domestic crimes while handling political trouble and agitations in West Tripura.

For six years till mid-2016, Tripura Police grappled with a series of murders. “We would come across unidentified bodies lying in isolated places, with the victims killed after being sodomised. No cases were registered. We solved the eight murders. Two carpenters led normal lives but were sexual perverts. They lured homeless people to secluded places where they used to commit the crime,” Saptarshi said.

Last year, Saptarshi and his team cracked an inter-state gang of bank robbers, the investigation of which went upto Odisha. They also busted a marijuana trade with roots in Bihar.

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