The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested an alleged drug peddler with heroin worth Rs1 crore in the international market, police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Raj Kumar (40), a resident of Moti Nagar in West Delhi, was arrested near Ghazipur flyover on National Highway-24, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said.
One kilogram of heroin was recovered from Kumar, Yadav said, adding he had procured it from a Bareilly-based drug trafficker Rabid. During interrogation, Kumar said he himself was a drug addict and had started supplying narcotics to meet the expenses of taking doses, police said. An FIR has been registered in this connection at Crime Branch Police Station under NDPS Act.
The accused has previously been involved in 16 cases under the Excise Act, Arms Act, snatching and house theft. Kumar has been convicted in a murder case and is out of jail at present as his appeal is pending in the High Court.