NEW DELHI, Oct 10: In a second major drug haul in a week, the special cell of the Delhi police on Thursday busted a drug network in Ramesh Nagar locality and seized over 200 kilograms of cocaine worth over Rs 2,000 crores.
With this the Delhi police have seized drugs worth over Rs 7,000 crores in a week from the national capital. The cops have seized 762 kgs of drugs valuing over ₹ 7,500 crore, in a week. It is the biggest drug haul in the country.
Last week, over 500 kg of cocaine were seized in what was the biggest drug bust in the national capital. Four men were arrested in connection with the drug bust after a raid in south Delhi.
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police tracked the drug supplier through GPS and zeroed in on him in West Delhi’s Ramesh Nagar. The accused fled to London but the cops managed to seize the drugs. It is part of the same syndicate where the Delhi Police seized ₹ 5,600 of cocaine last week.
Special Cell cops arrested Jitendra Pal Singh, also known as Jassi, from the airport in Punjab’s Amritsar as he was trying to flee to the United Kingdom, indicating a link between organised crime in that country and a pan-India network smuggling illegal drugs into this country.
According to the police, an international drugs smuggling syndicate is behind the massive cocaine consignment. The police was alerted about Singh’s attempt to flee, he has been living in the UK for the past 17 years as a ‘permanent resident’ – as they had issued a look-out circular, against him.
The authorities believe this particular drug syndicate – which operates out of Delhi and Mumbai in India – also has links to Dubai. The name of an Indian citizen – Virendra Basoya, who now lives in the West Asian country – has been flagged during Delhi Police’s interrogation of suspects.
The latest drug bust in the national capital follows the arrest of two Afghan nationals after 400 grams of heroin and 160 grams of cocaine from their possession in Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area last Sunday. The passenger was a national of the Federal Republic of Liberia, who arrived from Dubai to Delhi. He was arrested under the NDPS Act 1985.
(Manas Dasgupta)
