Pakistan-based banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has been running a drug cartel to raise funds to carry out its terrorist actives in India. While claiming to have busted one such module — a narco-terrorism trail — of the organisation, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Monday said that they had arrested three drug traffickers working for Hizb and one of them is a constable of Jammu & Kashmir Police. A total of 10 kilo of high grade heroin, worth around Rs 35 crore in the international market has also been recovered from their possession.
Police said that it has been revealed during three-week long investigations investigation that the kingpin of this syndicate is a Kuwait-based person called ‘Ali’ and he along with an Abbottabad-based Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Fayyaz, alias Tanveer, alias Shamsher, were involved in narcotics trade. Ali orchestrates the activities of this drug cartel over phone and through internet telephony. In this case, it has been revealed that Kuwait-based Ali coordinates with Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen members for channelling drug supplies into India.
“Three arrested persons have been identified as Khurshid Alam, who is a constable with Jammu & Kashmir Police, B Ganesh and M Senthil, both of whom had come to collect the consignment,” Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), SN Srivastava said. During interrogation, Alam has revealed that since January 2013, he has supplied around 70-80 kilo heroin in Delhi and NCR. “The money generated from the deal was used to fund terrorist activities in India and Alam has supplied 70-80 kilo of drugs that was produced in Afghanistan in the past one year through Pakistan. The drugs were transported through the Uri sector on India-Pakistan border,” Srivastava added.
It was also revealed that the kingpin Ali whose another trafficking module was busted by the Special Cell in December 2013, resulting in recovery of 47 kilo of heroin and 2 kilo of crack cocaine. “Fayyaz is a known cadre of Hizbul Mujahideen who was active in Ganderbal area of Kashmir Valley till 2006 after which he returned to Pakistan. He has been working as a launch commander for terrorists who infiltrate into India to carry out terror strikes. The latest activity of Fayyaz was noticed in the month of August 2013, when five militants launched by him were neutralised in a counter-insurgency operation in Penag area,” he added.
On 19 January, police were tipped off that B Ganesh and M Senthil would be coming to Nizamuddin area to receive narcotics haul from Khurshid Alam. “Acting on a tip-off, a raid was conducted and the accused were apprehended. During interrogation, Ganesh and Senthil, both hailing from Tamil Nadu, disclosed that they are members of international drug syndicate being run by Ali. They further disclosed that one Gopi operates in the capacity of the resident manager on behalf of Ali and looks after south India operations,” the officer added.