Courier staffer held for drug trade

GURUGAM: The Special Task force (STF) of Haryana Police arrested a 38-year-old former employee of a courier company and recovered a packet of opium, weighing 1.04 kilograms, from his possession on Monday morning at Bahadurgarh in Haryana.

The STF has also identified three people from Punjab, who allegedly supplied the drug through courier to Canada and Dubai. The officials said they will soon be arrested.

According to the officials, the accused has been identified as Sitakant Giri , a native of Orissa, who lived in Lado Sarai, Delhi for last three years.

Giri worked with a private courier company and was assigned the task for two districts of Punjab.

“Two smugglers from Punjab contacted the accused in 2015 and they became friends over a period of three months. They offered him ₹15,000 for clearing the courier packet for shipment after putting on the courier clearing label. They shared their business plan with him and told him that they supply drugs to Canada and Dubai , where there is a huge demand for such drugs,” said Satheesh Balan, deputy inspector general (STF), Gurugram.