Drug menace: How mafias work
Drug mafias of Punjab have struck a new alliance with peddlers from north eastern states who are using a new route via Myanmar border to deliver consignments up to Punjab, a kingpin of a drug syndicate arrested by the Delhi Police has revealed.
The police claims that he told his interrogators that after the crackdown post Pathankot attack this is the new modus operandi which these syndicates have been resorting to.
Last year’s terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force base exposed the gaps in security along the India-Pakistan border as the route taken by terrorists was the same used by drug syndicates.
The arrested accused has been identified as 45-year-old Nazir Hussain alias Nizam alis Nizamuddin, who was carrying a reward of Rs 50,000. Sanjeev Yadav, DCP Special Cell said that the interrogations revealed that Nizam used to collect opium and heroin from various small cultivators in north-east and the same was supplied to various middle-men located in Shahjahanpur, Bareilly, Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi-NCR using trucks and other heavy vehicles to avoid detection by intelligence agencies.
“It is also revealed that these middle-men were regular customers, who used to place orders on phone and money used to be transferred both through …read more
