96.5kg Of Ganja In Cylinder; Afghans With 10 Cr Heroin Up Their Guts. A Round Up Of Drug Busts.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested for concealing drugs in iron cylinders and transporting them from West Bengal to Delhi via train. The drugs were transported through the parcel department of the railways.
Drug menace is on the rise in India and often goes unnoticed if police does not act swiftly. With each passing day, smugglers are finding new and creative ways to escape police scrutiny and transport drugs to places. But in many cases, the police have been swift to act.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested for concealing drugs in iron cylinders and transporting them from West Bengal to Delhi via train. The drugs were transported through the parcel department of the railways. According to police, 96.5 kilograms of cannabis packed in six iron cylinders was seized from New Delhi Railway Station. On January 10, around 11pm, a Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer who was on patrolling duty on platform number 16 spotted a man carrying cylinders in a hand cart.
"As the handcart-puller was moving, one of the cylinders fell and a suspicious material came out of it. When the patrolling officer checked the material, he found that it was ganja. The man was taken into custody and a thorough examination of the cylinders revealed that they were all filled with the drug," said a report The Times of India.
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¡°The accused was identified as Usman, a resident of Samaypur Badli. Investigation revealed that the parcel was issued in his name for taking possession of the cylinders and he also got a gate pass issued for him to transport the cylinders from the railway station. A case was registered and the accused was arrested,¡± said Harendra Singh, DCP, Railways.
In other news, seven Afghan nationals, who were arrested at the IGI Airport in New Delhi for smuggling heroin, were made to excrete a fortune worth more than Rs 10 crore.
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As many as 177 capsules of heroin, which the seven ¡°couriers¡± had ingested for smuggling into the country, have been recovered by the Narcotics Control Bureau in a major haul of contraband linked to an international cartel possibly led by Taliban leader in Kandahar.
Officials informed that 10 dozen bananas were fed to the detained men over the past few days. It aided the process of recovery after x-ray tests had shown the presence of drug in their stomachs.
In all, nine Afghan nationals, the seven men along with two receivers
based in Delhi, have been arrested so far, narcotics officials said.
