Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested four people, including the nephew of a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Azmi, for their alleged involvement in smuggling of a party drug ‘Ice’ and seized five kilogram of the contraband worth Rs40 crore.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, said the kingpin of the gang Kailash Rajput, is settled in Dubai and is controlling the trade from there. Abu Aslam Qasim Azmi alias Aslam (43) is the nephew of SP MlA from Mumbai Abu Azmi, he said.
“The Special Cell has been working on busting cartels involved in supply of ‘Ephedrine’ and ecstasy (MDMA) in rave parties in Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, etc,” said the DCP.
Police received a tip-off about Amit Aggarwal, procuring Ephedrine from Zirakpur, Punjab. “He, along with his associates, used to supply ‘MDMA’, popularly known as ‘Ice’ to his clients in India and abroad. On the basis of a tip-off, a trap was laid at Mahipalpur to nab the accused. The team, working on the case, learnt that a consignment of ‘Ice’ has been sent from Mumbai to Delhi and will be further supplied to the United States and United Kingdom,” the DCP said.
The drug traffickers were supposed to come to their Mahipalpur office in South Delhi for packaging of that consignment, he said.
A person, carrying a red and black-coloured bag came to the office around 5.50 am. He was identified as Avdesh Kumar (26) and was nabbed while he was entering the office.
Police recovered five kilogram of the contraband from his possession.
Following Kumar’s arrest, his employer Amit Aggarwal (40) and manager Chandan Rai (31) were also nabbed.
Aggarwal revealed that the consignment was sent by Qazim Azmi from Mumbai. He was arrested from a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday. Azmi is the right-hand of Rajput, who is the kingpin of the drug cartel and looks after the network in India, said the officer.
Kumar had joined Aggarwal’s firm in 2015. He was lured into the business on the promise that the money received from the smuggling will be split equally.
During interrogation, Qasim Azmi revealed that he earlier worked in a cargo company in Dubai. He left the job and moved to Mumbai. Rajput and he had some common friends.
He opened a restaurant in Goa and came in contact with drug traffickers there. Rajput used to supply drugs to them.
“Qazim Azmi and Rajput decided to join hands. He made his base in Mumbai and received and distributed the drugs on the directions of Rajput. He managed to carve out a large network of drug traffickers based in metros,” said the police official.
About three-years back when Rajput was arrested by the Mumbai Police, Qazim Azmi helped him during his trial period and became a close aide.
On the directions of Rajput, he supplied the drugs through courier to France, Germany, UK, Spain and USA, Yadav added.