Dehradun police have arrested a person involved in narcotics and spurious spice trade. The police also recovered three kilogram of Hashish worth Rs 3 lakh and 100 gram morphine which is worth Rs 5 lakh in market from him.
Informing newsmen the Superintendent of Police (SP) city, Pradeep Rai said that during an intensive campaign against drug peddlers the police on Tuesday arrested one Mustkeem a resident of Saharanpur from Nanda Ki Chowki area. On interrogation the culprit informed police that he is working in Dehradun from last four years and initially worked in a tea shop but came into the drug peddling trade when found easy money in the business. Mustkeem said that he used to smuggle narcotics from places like Saharanpur, Chutmalpur and Bareilly. He informed that he was carrying the consignment to Dehradun for selling it to the customers. The peddler revealed that most of his customers were students.
The SP said that the cases against various provisions of NDPS act have been slapped on Mustkeem.
Interestingly the drug peddler also exposed a spice factory involved in packing of spurious spices. He informed the police that from last five months he is working in a spice factory with one Rashid Ali, a resident of Deoband in Uttar Pradesh. Mustkeem said that a consignment of drug Coridex is also hidden in the spice factory located at Jamanpuri, Peeth wali Gali, Selaqui. On the tip off provided by him a team of police and food and civil safety department raided the compound and confiscated drug and took spices from the factory. The police confiscated 28 cases of syrup codirex from the factory the market value of which is about Rs 8 lakhs.
The SP city claimed that the arrested drug peddler has made many revelations and provided vital information about many others involved in narcotic trade and soon action against them would be initiated.
The police team consisted of Circle Officer (CO), City Chandramohan Negi, Station House Officer (SHO) of Premnagar police station Naresh Rathore, Sub Inspector Praveen Saini and Constables Sunil Malik, Narendra, Kailash, Harish, Umesh Giri, Mukesh Puri and Rathi.