Heroin worth ₹100 crore seized
The suppliers are procuring the contraband from the Golden Triangle zone and smuggling it into India through the Indiamyanmar border.
SANJEEV YADAV, DCP (Special Cell)
NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have seized 25 kg heroin worth around ₹100 crore in the international market from two alleged members of the drug cartel who were arrested from Delhi and Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, which, police said, is fast turning into a hub of supply of heroin into northern India.
The police on Tuesday claimed that the narcotics ring is part of an international drug cartel, Golden Triangle’ zone (Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand), where many drug cartels produce and move heroin and methamphetamine across Asia.
This is the second biggest seizure of heroin by the city police this year and the highest in terms of quantity this month. A similar racket was busted on October 3 this year when police seized 20 kilograms of heroin worth R80 crore from two drug peddlers. Around 30 kilograms of heroin worth around ₹125 crore was seized from five men in April.
Police claimed the drug trafficking syndicates busted this month are not interlinked but are linked to the Golden Triangle zone, a term coined by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.
Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, DCP (special cell), said the special cell officers were working on inputs that a narcotics cartel was supplying heroin to drug dealers in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan after sourcing it from northeastern states.
“We learnt that the members of this cartel have been bringing heroin from Assam and Manipur. The suppliers are procuring the contraband from the Golden Triangle zone and smuggling it into India through the India-myanmar border,” said DCP Yadav.
On October 13, Yadav said, police received information that Sayyed Khan, a key member of the cartel, would come to Delhi’s Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar in a truck to deliver a huge consignment of heroin to his contact. Accordingly, a trap was laid and Khan was caught. During a check of the truck, police seized 25 kg heroin. The contraband packets were concealed deep between tea packets and hidden in a special cavity created in the truck’s cabin, said Yadav.
Khan told the police he had procured the contraband from one Zameer in Manipur, on the directions of two dealers from Mandsaur — Ghanshyam and Raju. A team was sent to Mandsaur and Ghanshyam was arrested but Raju escaped.
Ghanshyam’s told police that he, Raju and other partners used to finance the consignments from Manipur and Assam and sold them to their contacts in Delhi and other northern states.