2 Afghan nationals arrested in drugs case
Drugs worth Rs 350 crore were recovered from Shaheen Bagh area in Delhi on Thursday. Now two foreign nationals have been arrested in the case.
Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh (Shaheen BaghNarcotics Control Bureau in the case of seizure of drugs worth 350 crores in the area (NCB) has arrested two Afghan nationals from Delhi. According to the information, the link of both is linked to Taliban. Right now the police is interrogating both of them. According to media reports, NCB on Thursday seized 50 kg of high quality heroin (Heroin) from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh.Heroine) and had seized 47 kg of suspected narcotics. In the international market, their price is being told around Rs 350 crore. NCB had earlier arrested an accused in this case.
30 lakh rupees were recovered from this accused. The accused is associated with a gang supplying narcotics from Afghanistan. During the search, the NCB also found a note counting machine at his house.
Drugs were brought from Afghanistan
The officer said that the accused are being questioned. NCB Deputy Director General Sanjay Kumar Singh told that this heroin was smuggled from Afghanistan to Delhi. The cash is suspected to have been brought through hawala. The narcotics were kept wrapped in bags, jute sacks and packets of e-commerce companies. Its samples have been sent to the lab for testing.
narco-terrorism angle
Officials said that this is the biggest ever seizure of narcotics from a residential area in Delhi. According to NCB sources, the gang leader lives in Dubai. While NCB chief SN Pradhan had said on Thursday that the investigation of the case shows that Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh drugs case may have a connection with narco-terrorism. Also said that it has connections to Dubai, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that more people are involved in this matter. He said that recently the Taliban government of Afghanistan has announced a ban on its cultivation. But instead of restrictions, there seems to be an increase in export and illegal smuggling outside.
There is demand in Indian market
He said that there is a demand for it in the Indian market. These syndicates are smuggling goods into India through maritime as well as land border routes, in which heroin is smuggled along with many goods. Later, with the help of some Afghan nationals, Indian counterparts extract heroin from those goods.
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