In a biggest haul this year, the Delhi Police has recovered 54 kilograms of heroine worth Rs 250 crores and busted an international drug cartel operating from Delhi’s Batla House area. Police said that they have arrested five people including two Afghan nationals from the city.
The accused have been identified as Altaf, a resident of Kashmir, Abid Hussain Sultan, a resident of Kashmir, Tifal Nau Khez, a resident of New Friends’ Colony and Hashmat Mohammadi, and Abdullah Najibullah alias Nabi, all Afghan nationals.
According to Pramod Singh Kushwah, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, on May 2, Altaf was nabbed after a trap was laid and 4.5 kg contraband was recovered from his possession.
“Accordingly, a case under the NDPS Act was registered at the Special Cell police station and investigation was taken up. During further investigation, based upon disclosures made by Altaf, a raid was conducted and second accused Abid Hussain was arrested and a total of 12 kgs of contraband was recovered from his home situated in Vinoba Puri,” said the DCP.
“Sustained confrontations of the arrested accused with evidence at hand led to the findings that there was an entity named ‘Haji’, who was sending the contraband which was being further refined and reconstituted using chemicals being supplied by one ‘Lakha’ of Amritsar, Punjab,” said the DCP.“The first concrete involvement of Afghani presence in this module surfaced in the name of Hashmat Mohammadi, an Afghan national residing in the area of Zakir Nagar and he was arrested with 500 grams of heroine,” said the DCP.“Interrogation revealed that the contraband was being sourced from one Kasim, Hashmat’s brother and one Haji. Both Kasim and Haji are based in Afghanistan. Taking the investigation further, a raid was conducted at a house situated in F-Block, Batla House, Okhla, Delhi and a clandestine facility, being run in under a residential cover, was unearthed,” said the DCP.“A total of 29.5 kgs contraband along with articles used for reconstitution including big aluminum containers, buckets, gunny bags soaked in chemical, distillers etc. were recovered,” said the DCP.“The address of the house police raided Tifal Nau Khez, who was earlier arrested by police for heroine in 2019. Coming to learn and map various new hot-spots of the trade in Delhi, another raid was conducted in the area of Wazirabad and the fifth accused of this case namely Abdullah was arrested and further 3.2 kgs of contraband material was recovered from him,” said the DCP.
