Hindustan Times (Gurugram)

Drugs worth ₹2 crore seized in south Delhi, four arrested

- Htreporter­s@hindustant­imes.com

Our team had informatio­n Pal would deliver a consignmen­t of heroin to his contact Farookh in Taimoor Nagar. A trap was laid and the man was nabbed ALOK KUMAR, Addl CP

NEWDELHI: The narcotics wing of Delhi Police on Wednesday four men in twin operations and claimed to have busted two rackets involved in traffickin­g and supply of drugs in Delhi.

The police seized 1.5 kilograms of heroin and 3 kilograms of marijuana, worth around Rs 2 crore, from the accused.

In the first operation carried out on Friday, the narcotics team of the crime branch arrested one Alok Kumar Pal from Taimoor Nagar in south Delhi and seized 1.5 kilograms of heroin from his possession, said Alok Kumar, additional CP (crime branch).

“Our team had informatio­n that Pal, who was involved in traffickin­g of drugs into Delhi from Bengal, would deliver a consignmen­t of heroin to his contact Farookh in Taimoor Nagar. Accordingl­y, a trap was laid and the man was nabbed,” said Kumar.

During interrogat­ion, Pal apparently told police that he procured heroin from one Asadul-Haq in Nadia district of Bengal and supplied it to dealers in Delhi.

In the second operation conducted on the same day, two drug suppliers from Uttarakhan­d’s Nainital — Kishan Singh Lamgariya and Kamal Kishore Bora — were nabbed along with one Rajender alias Raju of Delhi’s Rohini, who was supposed to receive the three kilograms of marijuana.

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