The Special Cell of Delhi Police has nabbed two men allegedly indulged in supplying drugs in Delhi and its peripherals. Police said that they have also recovered heroin worth over Rs 40 crore in the international market from the possession of the accused.
The accused has been identified as Dinesh Singh (57) and Nazir alias Nazim (28), both residents of Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh. The recovered heroin was smuggled into India from Myanmar via Manipur, police said. According to Jasmeet Singh, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, on March 24, the police received specific inputs that two men had collected a big consignment of heroin from Jharkhand and they would come to Delhi-Meerut Expressway near ISBT Sarai Kale Khan to deliver the drug. “Acting on the inputs, the police team laid a trap and two persons carrying backpacks were nabbed. Six kilograms of heroin -- three kg each -- were recovered from their bags and four kg heroin was recovered from their car,” said the DCP. “Interrogation revealed that they were members of an international drug cartel. They have been supplying drugs in Delhi-NCR and parts of UP for the past five years,” said the DCP.
“The accused also told police that they had procured the heroin from a person in Jharkhand and had to deliver six kg in Delhi and remaining four kilos to Ghazipur,” said the DCP.
Both have further revealed that their supplier has links in Myanmar and Manipur. Most of the heroin is brought to Manipur from Myanmar and sent to adjoining States of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and later transported to others parts of the country, said the DCP. Heroin brought from Myanmar is not only comparatively cheaper but it is also of better quality, the DCP added.