NEW DELHI: In one of the biggest caches of 2019, the sleuths of special cell have busted an international drug cartel with the arrest of 10 accused, including Afghan and Nigerian nationals and a woman drug lord, and seized 83 kg of heroin worth rs 332 crore in international market.
In the first incident, police arrested three persons including the woman kingpin who used to operate international drug syndicate from North-east region in the country and recovered 44.5 kg of heroin worth Rs 180 crore in international market from the possession of the trio.
The accused have been identified as Shamuta Banu (54) the kingpin and native of Nagaon in Assam, Dhanji Gupta (49) and Dheeraj Kumar (24) both from Rohtash Bihar.
Pramod Kushwaha, DCP (special cell south), said members of this cartel, who were involved in getting supply of heroin from Myanmar through Manipur and further supply this drug to Delhi, Rajasthan, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal, were narrowed down. A trap was laid and the duo was apprehended and 21 kg heroin, was recovered. On their instance, Banu was arrested from her house and 23.5 kg of heroin was seized from her possession.
In the second raid, three Afghan nationals and one Nigerian were arrested for allegedly supplying drug in the national capital and 2.5 kg heroin worth Rs 10 crore in international market was recovered from their possession. The accused have been identified as Ehsanullah (28), Mohammad Amin (47) and Abdul Razzak (43), natives of Afghanistan, and Nnadozie Emmanuel (32), a native of Nigeria.
Emmanuel was arrested from Maidangarhi and 550 gram heroin along with over 4000 medicines of different kinds recovered from his possession,” said Mr Kushwaha.
