The Delhi Police claimed to have seized 9 kg of fine quality hashish and arrested two men for allegedly transporting the consignment from Kashmir to West Bengal. Police estimated the value of the seized consignment at Rs 90 lakh.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Delhi Police's Special Cell intercepted a truck near Fun Park on the Delhi-Haryana border on Tuesday evening.
Mashiar Rahaman Mondal, 53, a resident of Nadia in West Bengal, and Mohammad Arif, 26, hailing from Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir, were arrested. Arif was driving the truck, bearing a Jammu & Kashmir registration number.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell has been working for the past six months on inputs about the supply of premium quality hashish by a Kashmir-based man in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata and other parts of the country, said Pramod Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell).
During spot interrogation, Arif confessed that he had brought the recovered narcotic drug in a bag from his truck which was parked in the parking near Singhu border, Delhi. Accordingly this truck was seized in this case.
During interrogation, Arif revealed that he had come in contact with Kashmiri drug supplier Gulam Hassan, and started working for him. "Arif has made five deliveries of around 60 kg of hashish to various receivers in Delhi and NCR and buyers from West Bengal in the past six months," the DCP said.
Mondal revealed that he worked as a "carrier" for a drug trafficker from Belgharia, on the outskirts of Kolkata, (West Bengal). He used to receive Rs 5,000 per kg for transporting drugs from Delhi to Kolkata or other places excluding travel expenses. He is in this illegal trafficking since 2013 and he has transported over 100 kgs of narcotics of drug traffickers from various contacts from J&K, Himachal Pradesh and other States.
A case under relevant sections of NDPS Act for possession of commercial quantity of high quality hashish has been registered against the accused persons and investigation has been taken up to unearth the entire drug syndicate involved in this trade, the DCP added.