The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested a 28-year-old for drug trafficking and seized 360 kilograms of poppy straw from his possession, officials said on Thursday. The accused was identified as Mumtaz Ali, a resident of Sangam Vihar, they said. On the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, police received information that Ali would be transporting illegal poppy straw to Azad Pur Mandi via Jahangir Puri, a senior police officer said. A trap was laid in Jahangir Puri and Ali was nabbed at around 1 am, he said.
During interrogation, Ali told police that a resident of Madhya Pradesh supplied poppy straw to him once a month, A K Singla, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) said.