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Heroin worth 14 crore seized

Staff Reporter

Consignment brought from Amritsar was kept in a car

Two persons, including a head constable with Punjab police, arrested
In another case, police seized 2 kg heroin from three foreign nationals

NEW DELHI: A Punjab Police head constable and his accomplice have been arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on charges of drug trafficking. The agency claims to have seized 14 kg of heroin from the accused.

The DRI recently received a tip-off that a big consignment of heroin had been brought to the Capital by two residents of Amritsar who were on the lookout for buyers. Investigations revealed that the suspects had kept the consignment concealed in a car that was parked in the Paharganj side of the New Delhi railway station.

Subsequently the accused were arrested on Saturday night and the contraband worth about Rs.14 crore in the international market was seized by the DRI sleuths from the vehicle. During interrogation, the duo identified themselves as Kulbir Singh (35) and Gurbaz Singh (45). Kulbir told his interrogators that he was a head constable with the Punjab police and had joined service in 1994. The accused had procured the consignment from Amritsar and brought it to Delhi in Kulbir’s brother’s vehicle.

They had parked the car at New Delhi railway station on Friday to evade detection.

“Though the inflow of heroin through the Indo-Pakistan border was low in the first two months owing to the non-conducive climactic conditions along the borders, we suspect that it may increase in the coming months,” said an official.

In another case, three foreign nationals including a woman have been arrested by the Delhi Zonal Unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau on charges of drug peddling. The agency claims to have seized 2 kg of heroin from them.

Acting on a tip-off that some foreign nationals staying in a flat at Tilak Nagar were engaged in drug smuggling, the NCB sleuths mounted a raid there this past week and arrested three of them, identified as two Nigerian nationals and a Thai woman. During interrogation, the accused purportedly disclosed that the Thai woman had been hired as a courier to smuggle the contraband out of the country through body concealment, said NCB Zonal Director Sandeep Mittal.

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