Days after the Delhi Police arrested 5 individuals in what they mentioned was the largest-ever drug bust within the metropolis and seized 560 kg cocaine price Rs 5,000 crore from a Mahipalpur godown, one other 200 kg of the drug was recovered from a store in West Delhi’s Ramesh Nagar Thursday.
Police mentioned in each instances, the drug was being trafficked into town by a Dubai-based cartel. The most recent bust got here after two extra members of the cartel have been arrested by the Particular Cell on October 6 and eight respectively, a police officer mentioned.
“The store had been closed for a month. We’re verifying who owns it. The 200 kg cocaine got here in with the identical 560 kg consignment that was saved in Mahipalpur. Totally different godowns have been chosen for straightforward distribution,” a police officer mentioned.
Police mentioned the drug was transported in brown cardboard packing containers, saved inside ‘Tasty Deal with’ namkeen packets.
On October 8, police mentioned UP resident Akhlaq was arrested for allegedly transporting part of the consignment throughout godowns in Delhi. He was allegedly aided by A Safi, who hailed from Tamil Nadu; he was arrested on October 6 for facilitating the storage and motion of the consignment.
“We raided potential areas in Delhi on October 5 to nab Safi, however he absconded to Chennai the day earlier than. On October 6, a raid was performed in Tamil Nadu and he was dropped at Delhi,” a police officer conscious of the investigations mentioned.
In the meantime, the alleged proprietor of the automobile used to hold the cocaine has fled to London, police sources mentioned.
This bust takes the full weight of the medication trafficked by the cartel to 760 kg, costing roughly Rs 7,000 crore within the worldwide market. The 2 arrests take the full variety of arrests to seven.
The conspiracy to allegedly distribute medication across the NCR by the cartel unfolded when the Particular Cell raided a godown in Mahipalpur final Tuesday and went on to arrest 5 males, together with key members in India — Jassi and Tushar Goel.
“Extra arrests will likely be made within the case within the coming days,” an officer mentioned.
Police mentioned Goel, the 40-year-old inheritor to 2 publishing homes owned by his father, had leased the Mahipalpur godown the place the medication have been seized. He had been on the police radar for the previous 4 months, they mentioned.
In response to police, it was a three-month operation that had finally led them to the accused. “In August, intelligence companies knowledgeable the Central authorities that a large consignment of cocaine was to be distributed in Delhi by a world drug cartel with ties to the Center East. We zeroed in on Goel as having potential ties with a Dubai-based trafficker who’s a part of a Center East drug cartel,” an officer within the know of the case had mentioned.
Together with Goel, police mentioned the others arrested have been Auranzeb Siddiqui (23), Himanshu Kumar (27), who oversaw the distribution in Delhi-NCR, and Bharat Jain (48), who was to distribute the medication in Mumbai.
Jassi, the fifth accused, who was allegedly Goel’s India handler, was arrested on October 3, mentioned police. “He had cocaine price round 10 crore in his black Fortuner and was going to distribute it throughout Punjab. He was going to come back to Delhi and go to London on October 12. Studying of Goel’s arrest, he left the automobile in Amritsar and tried to flee,” a police officer had mentioned.
