A notorious 45-year-old drug peddler was arrested by South east district narcotics squad from Taimur Nagar in South east Delhi. The police have recovered 528 grams of ‘heroin’ from the possession of the accused.
“The accused is identified as Farooq Mohammad who is a resident of Indira Gandhi Camp in Taimur Nagar. He was arrested by the team constituted to detect and nab the persons involved in the drugs peddling in the area ofNew Friends Colony,” said Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), south east district.
“During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he used to purchase heroin at Rs 12 lakh /kg from drugs suppliers of Bareilly and Hapur. The accused used to prepare small packets from one gram of Heroin and used to sell them at Rs 150 each and used to earn profit of Rs 3 lakhs onsale of 1 Kg of Heroin. The accused used to sell these packets to drug addicts of Delhi-NCR area and even in the parties also,” said the DCP.
Explaining modus operandi of the accused the DCP said that the accused had deployed unemployed young men to work for him. “He used to give Rs 500 per day to his men to sale heroin packs for him. In order to avoid detection from police agencies, the accused had deployed young men as watchmen in plain clothes in the nearby areas where he used to sell these packets. These “watchmen” used to keep watch on any police movement and if any such movement is detected they used to inform Farooq, who along with his vendors used to flee from the spot,” said the DCP.
“Further investigation of the case is still in progress and the efforts to trace the other drug peddlers in the area are on,” the DCP added.