It was a GPS tracker on a rented automobile that gave the sport away.
This automobile, a gray Ertiga, was utilized by gang members of a not too long ago busted cocaine drug cartel in Delhi to move a few of their wares from a Ghaziabad godown to a West Delhi store. They, nevertheless, had no concept that their route was being mapped.
All police needed to do was go to the Ghazabiad storage facility, have a look at its CCTV through which they noticed the automobile, hint the mentioned automobile to a transporter, and comply with the automobile’s GPS route.
This led cops straight to the West Delhi store in Ramesh Nagar, the place they recovered 208 kg of cocaine price over Rs 2,000 crore.
Seven folks have been arrested to date in reference to the racket to date — Tushar Goel, Auranzeb Siddiqui, Himanshu Kumar, Bharat Jain, Jassi aka Jitendar, A. Safi and Md. Akhlaq. The mastermind, Dubai-based Virendra Baisoya, is but to be nabbed; a lookout discover has been issued towards him, mentioned police.
How did police discover the godown?
It was whereas questioning Safi, from Tamil Nadu, that police came upon he had introduced the consignment to Hapur. From there, Safi and Akhlaq allegedly took it to the Ghaziabad storage facility. When police went to the power, they discovered it was leased by an MBA graduate who thought she was working for a pharma firm, police sources mentioned.
“She revealed there have been 4 individuals who loaded completely different elements of the consignment from the godown in Ghaziabad. Two had been Jassi and Goel. The opposite two had been Savinder Singh, a UK resident, and Safi,” a police officer mentioned on situation of anonymity.
Police then checked the power’s CCTV footage and confirmed Savinder and Safi’s presence, officers added. They noticed the Ertiga automobile on footage and traced it to a transporter. “Akhlaq rented the automobile from the transporter. The identical automobile was used to get the medication to Ramesh Nagar. It had a GPS (tracker), which the accused had been unaware of. That’s how the automobile was tracked,” a police officer mentioned.
The officer additional mentioned a number of folks concerned within the storage and motion of the consignment from South India to Delhi had been beneath the guise that it was a ‘drugs’ consignment of a pharma firm. “They had been paid month-to-month salaries via mule accounts. We’re engaged on monitoring all of the unaware ‘workers’ of the cartel,” the officer mentioned.
The whole consignment of 770 kg recovered by Particular Cell sleuths, led by DCP (Trans Yamuna Vary/Southern Vary) Amit Kaushik, was transported in two tranches of 562 kg and 208 kg. The whole thing was saved within the Ghaziabad facility earlier than it entered Delhi, cops mentioned.
Police mentioned the primary batch was busted on October 1 in a godown in Mahipalpur the place 562 kg cocaine was seized and 4 folks had been arrested, together with Goyal, the Delhi distributor and Baisoya’s long-time buddy. Goyal was being tracked since August by the Particular Cell, mentioned police.
On October 3, Jassi, a UK resident allegedly assigned by Baisoya to make sure storage of the drug, was arrested from Amritsar airport whereas making an attempt to flee. Singh has fled to London, mentioned police.
