Forty-year-old Tushar ‘Dikki’ Goel comes from a enterprise household and is inheritor to 2 publishing homes owned by his father. A resident of Vasant Enclave, he’s additionally allegedly the primary accused in a Rs 5,000 crore drug racket busted by the Delhi Police final week.
On October 1, the Particular Cell raided a godown in Mahipalpur, claiming to have seized greater than 560 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of marijuana — transported by a global module — and arrested Tushar and three of his associates. A fifth man was nabbed on October 3. Throughout their probe, police say they discovered Tushar had allegedly been a part of the drug distribution racket for a few years now.
Police say he graduated from Indraprastha College in 2003 and joined the household enterprise. “Nevertheless, he by no means really got here to the workplace and was normally discovered socialising in golf equipment,” a police officer says.
In keeping with police, he and his father, Subhash Goel, had a falling out over his marriage. In keeping with police sources, Goel finally married and moved to Rajouri Backyard. “He began working as a liaisoning agent to make his personal revenue… He took hefty commissions and earned nicely,” a police officer says.
Nevertheless, police declare, Tushar started frequenting golf equipment once more. “That’s how he got here in touch with members of a Dubai-based drug cartel,” a police supply claims. In keeping with police, by 2018, Tushar had allegedly already established his crew of associates — Himanshu Kumar (27) and Auranzeb Siddiqui (23) — in Delhi to help him within the drug enterprise.
In 2017, Auranzeb began working as Tushar’s driver, police say. “Ultimately, he turned concerned in his unlawful actions,” a police officer says. Himanshu, a resident of Suleiman Nagar in Delhi, began working as a bouncer and private bodyguard in 2014. By 2018, he was additionally working as Tushar’s bodyguard. “They had been in contact with Jitender aka Jassi, a UK-based cartel member who oversaw the India operations and gave directions to Tushar,” the officer says.
In August this 12 months, police bought a tip-off that the son of a outstanding publishing home proprietor can be concerned in distributing cocaine equipped by a Dubai-based cartel throughout the festive season. “We’d been monitoring him (Tushar) for the previous two months… he was taking godowns on lease — in Ghaziabad and Mahipalpur,” a police supply claims.
The godowns, allegedly, had been to be storehouses for the roughly Rs 5,000 crore cocaine and marijuana consignment. In keeping with police, the consignment initially got here to the Ghaziabad godown after which to Mahipalpur. It’s by way of these the Particular Cell traced him.
Police say the investigation additionally revealed Tushar was a part of the Youth Congress. His purported appointment letter of March 24, 2022, confirmed he was head of the Delhi Youth Congress’ RTI cell.
The Congress although, refutes any current hyperlinks with Tushar. “He was usually seen with BJP leaders and wasn’t energetic as a youth Congress member. He was additionally concerned in anti-party actions. Therefore, he was suspended,” a supply from the Delhi Congress says, citing Tushar’s expulsion letter from October 2022.
A number of pictures of Tushar additionally surfaced with BJP leaders. The occasion, nevertheless, says he was not related to it in any capability.
Police sources stated that is the primary recorded case towards Tushar. “We’re probing as to how lengthy he was facilitating drug distribution in Delhi,” a supply says.
Tushar’s India handler, Jassi, was arrested on October 3 whereas making an attempt to flee to London from Amritsar. “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 from the airport,” a police officer says.
On Saturday, at Jassi’s occasion, the Fortuner was seized from Amritsar, together with the cocaine, police say.
