Crime branch Bhopal on Friday arrested a woman from Bajaria area of the State capital on the charge of drug peddling and have recovered brown sugar worth Rs 7 lakh from her possession.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shailendra Singh Chouhan told media persons that the accused was caught red-handed selling brown sugar. Around 68 gm of contraband worth Rs 7 lakh was recovered from the woman. The accused woman has been identified as Shabnam (40) of Shankracharaya Nagar in Bajaria locality. Chouhan added that in a joint operation with crime branch Bhopal and Bajaria police, the woman was nabbed with drugs.
Earlier drug peddling gangs were busted in the city, but this woman has been caught for the first time. The woman was detained earlier also but nothing was found. On Friday she was nabbed with around 250 pouches of Brown Sugar. The pouches were in the range of Rs 100- Rs 1,000 according to the need of the customers. Addl SP Chouhan has also accepted that a nexus is present in the city that is systematically running the drug trafficking racket and claimed that this racket would be unearthed soon. The accused has revealed some names which could be disclosed at the moment as it might alert the accomplices and kingpin and would hamper the investigation.
To escape an arrest, the accused woman used to sell drugs only to regular customer and do not entertained new customer assuming the new customer might reveal about the source of drug to others, increasing her chances of arrest. The property of the woman earned through the drug trafficking business would be investigated.