Crime branch Bhopal has nabbed a drug peddler from Dwarka Nagar and have recovered 3 kg of Cannabis worth Rs 6000 on Wednesday.
The nabbed accused was identified as Arjun Khateek (38) the accused was nabbed after receiving information of the accused from the earlier nabbed drug peddlers Raju Suryavanshi of Anand Nagar and Rinku Sharma of Aligarh. The two were nabbed with 41 kg of Cannabis. They used to bring drugs from Vishakhapatnam to the city and when the two were nabbed and quizzed they confessed regarding involvement of Arjun Khateek a resident of Dwarka Nagar. After receiving the information police started search for the accused and got success after four months if intensive search the absconding accused was nabbed on Wednesday.
During the investigation police received information that Arjun would come to sell drugs in Chhola Mandir area on Wednesday and acting on the tip off a police team was made and nabbed the accused.
In the past few months drug consignments were frequently traced by crime branch police Bhopal which were mostly supplied from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and the means of transport used by the drug traffickers was railways.
Meanwhile, crime branch traced a 19-year-old city youth in Ujjain who went missing around half a year ago from Nishatpura Colony. According to the police the victim Ghanshyam Rajak went missing on January 18, 2015 on his way to his grandmother’s house.
The missing youth contacted his father but not provided details of his whereabouts. After receiving the call victim’s father reported the incident to the crime branch and based on the mobile phone location the missing youth was traced in Ujjain.
For the past one and a half year the missing youth used to work with a building contractor and used to work as building painter. The victim left the house after he was scolded for studies by his mother as he was weak in studies and was not having interest in studies.