In February, Dubai-based Virendra Baisoya flew right down to Delhi and threw a grand marriage ceremony for his son at a location close to the IGI Airport. Baisoya, alias, Veeru is now on the Delhi Police radar — he’s the alleged mastermind, the mind behind the Rs 7,000 crore cocaine consignment seized in Delhi over the previous week, police sources claimed.
Among the many marriage ceremony friends, police stated, was Baisoya’s aide and ‘essential handler’ of the cartel in Delhi — 40-year-old Tushar Goel, inheritor to 2 publishing homes owned by his father — in addition to different members.
Police declare Tushar has identified Baisoya for the previous 20 years. “He solely started working as a key member of Baisoya’s cocaine enterprise in Delhi over the previous two to a few years,” a police supply stated. Police additionally claimed Baisoya promised Tushar Rs 3 crore per consignment.
Tushar was amongst seven folks arrested over the previous week when police made two drug busts — at a Mahipalpur godown and an empty store in West Delhi’s Ramesh Nagar — and recovered 500 kg and 208 kg of cocaine price Rs 7,000 in complete.
On the store, police discovered how the medication had been being smuggled — inside namkeen packets saved in cardboard containers. Police claimed the medication got here from South America, primarily Colombia, through Dubai on cargo ships and had been meant to be distributed throughout Delhi, Mumbai and Goa.
Lookout notices have now been issued in opposition to Baisoya and 5 others, and at the least three extra notices could be issued within the coming days, stated a police officer on situation of anonymity.
Police additionally stated the cartel had a novel manner of communication — they confirmed one another’s identities by matching serial numbers of torn foreign money notes and saved all communication strictly coded through an app.
“The cartel members confirmed one another’s identities utilizing serial numbers of foreign money notes as most of them didn’t know one another. A foreign money notice could be torn, and an image of every half could be given to the individuals who’re speculated to contact one another. Upon assembly, they’d alternate the photographs to see if the serial numbers match — then, the medication would change palms,” a police officer claimed.
Even Baisoya, police stated, contacted the members by way of the Threema app. He communicated in code utilizing musical connotations, they claimed. “There are possibilities even Baisoya isn’t conscious of the actual identification of the cartel members,” a police officer stated.
How the case unfolded
It was on October 1 that the Particular Cell raided a godown in Mahipalpur, leased by Tushar, and recovered the primary batch of 560 kg cocaine. Tushar and three others — Auranzeb Siddiqui (23), Himanshu Kumar (27), and Bharat Jain (in his 40s) — had been the primary to be arrested.
On October 3, the fifth arrest was made — Jitendra Pal aka Jassi (45), who was allegedly Tushar’s India handler. “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 Tushar’s arrest, he left the automobile in Amritsar and tried to flee,” a police officer had claimed.
Then on October 10, police recovered the second 208 kg consignment in Ramesh Nagar. This consignment, police stated, was dealt with by UK resident Savinder Singh — a lookout discover was issued in opposition to him too.
He was in Delhi for round a month. He acquired the consignment from two accused — A. Safi and Mohammad Akhlaq — dropped it on the store and fled to London on Sunday, police stated.
Based on police sources, Safi was arrested on Sunday whereas Akhlaq was arrested on Tuesday. Safi, who hailed from Chennai, works as a butcher and is a second-hand automobile supplier whereas Akhlaq used to promote greens wholesale and was concerned in small-time brokerage work, stated police.
Police claimed it was Safi, who got here in contact with the folks within the cartel by way of his automobile dealership enterprise, who introduced the consignment to Uttar Pradesh the place he met Akhlaq.
Akhlaq then introduced it to Delhi from Hapur in his car which had a GPS connected to it, they stated. Savinder used the identical car to make the drop, they claimed.
A police officer claimed Baisoya had tasked Jassi and Savinder to deal with the 2 consignments and distribute them to completely different distributors in Delhi-NCR. However each of them didn’t know one another earlier than coming to Delhi, he claimed.
