Nephew of Samajwadi Party MLA is among those who were arrested while blowing the lid off an international drug syndicate with underworld connections.
Authorities also seized five kilograms of party drug MDMA, popularly known as “ice”, worth about Rs 40 crore in the international market.
Delhi Police special cell officers arrested Abu Aslam Qasim Azmi (43) – who says his uncle is Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi- along with a business tycoon and courier company employees.
Ice is the purest and most potent form of methamphetamine. The user is likely to manifest euphoria, excitement and a sense of well-being that can last from an hour to a full day, and they will seem alert and confident. It comes as a powder or crystals that are usually snorted, injected or smoked.
Aslam is the right hand of Rajput, Deputy Commissioner of Police (special cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said.
Aslam was arrested from Mumbai yesterday.
The special cell of Delhi Police has been working on busting cartels involved in the supply of ‘ephedrine’ and ecstasy (MDMA) in rave parties in Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai etc, he said.
Police received a tip-off about a man Amit Aggarwal procuring Ephedrine from Zirakpur, Punjab.
The police laid a trap on June 4 at Mahipalpur to nab the accused. The team, working on the case learnt that a consignment of ‘ice’ has been sent from Mumbai to Delhi and will further be shipped to the US and UK, Yadav said.
The drug traffickers were supposed to come to their Mahipalpur office for packaging of the drug consignment, he said.
A person, carrying a red and black coloured bag came to the office around 5.50 AM. He was identified as Avdesh Kumar (26) and was nabbed while he was entering the office. Police recovered five kilograms of the contraband from his possession.
Following Kumar’s arrest, his employer Amit Aggarwal (40) and manager Chandan Rai (31) were also nabbed. Aggarwal revealed that the consignment was sent by Aslam from Mumbai. He was arrested from a five-star hotel in Mumbai, the DCP said.
Kumar had joined Aggarwal’s firm in 2015. He was lured into the business with the promise that the money received from the smuggling will be split equally.
During interrogation, Aslam revealed that he earlier worked for a cargo company in Dubai. He left his job and moved to Mumbai. He knew Rajput through some mutual friends.
Aslam opened a restaurant in Goa and came in contact with drug traffickers there. Rajput used to supply drugs to them following which both of them decided to join hands in the drug trade.
Aslam made his base in Mumbai and received and distributed the drugs on directions of Rajput. He managed to carve out a large network of drug traffickers based in metros, Yadav said.
Around three years back when Rajput was arrested by the Mumbai Police, Aslam helped him during his trial period and became his close aide. On the kingpin’s directions, he supplied the drugs through courier to France, Germany, UK, Spain and USA, the DCP said.
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