On Thursday, the Crime Branch seized 208 kg of cocaine from a rental shop in West Delhi's Ramesh Nagar area. Its price in the international market is Rs 2,080 crore.
These drugs were hidden in 20-25 packets of snacks. 'Tasty Treat' and 'Spicy Mixture' were written on these packets. It was posted here by a person living in United Kingdom.
He fled before the police raid. He had rented a shop a few days back for his clothing business. Two people including the shop owner are being detained and questioned.
8 days ago Delhi Police raided Mahipalpur area and seized cocaine worth 5 thousand crore rupees belonging to this syndicate. During this raid, the police got information about drugs being hidden in Ramesh Nagar.
So far drugs worth 7 thousand crore rupees have been seized in both the raids. In which 7 people have been arrested. The mastermind of this international drugs syndicate is in Dubai. He runs the gang from there.
Drugs worth Rs 2 crore were hidden in these 3 cartoons.
Lookout circular issued against mastermind The mastermind of this syndicate operating from Dubai has been identified as Virendra Basoya. He has many businesses in Dubai. Police have issued a lookout circular against Basoya.
Four people were arrested during the raid on October 2. After this, 2 more people were arrested from Amritsar and Chennai. After this, a person was arrested from Hapud in UP on Thursday itself.
Among these 7 arrested people are also two people named Tushar Goyal and Jitendra Gill, who were running the racket of this international drug syndicate in India.
Syndicate members were given code names Police said that most of the members involved in this syndicate do not know each other. They coordinated through social media. For communication, each member was given a code name.
Apart from this, the police suspect that these drugs were brought to Goa by sea from South American countries. After this he was brought to Delhi.
On October 2, the police presented the four accused before the media.
These drugs were hidden in a warehouse in Mahipalpur, Delhi.
The biggest bust in the capital so far This is considered to be the biggest ever case of cocaine seizure in Delhi. The police had been working for the last two months to bust this syndicate. Then the police received inputs about the supply of drugs. These smugglers were trying to smuggle this drug in the capital and NCR.
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Both the accused arrested in the drug case were produced in the court on October 6.
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