Police busts opium smuggling racket, arrests four

An inter-state drug cartel involved in smuggling of high grade opium from the North-East states, Jharkhand and Bihar to Delhi NCR region has been busted with the arrest of four traffickers, police said today.
A team of Special Cell arrested Shariyat Ali, Gopal, Javed and Sartaz Ali on a tip off from Saboli area in Nanad Nagri in east Delhi, on May 16, said Sanjeev Yadav, DCP(Special Cell).
Shariyat Ali and Gopal had brought the 69 Kg of high grade opium all the way from Nagaland in a truck owned by the later. Javed and Sartaz had come to receive the supplies when they were caught by the Special Cell team.

Shariyat during interrogation revealed that a Saharanpur based drug trafficker Israr was also scheduled to receive opium from him, he said.
Israr who was caught by the Special Cell team from Mukarba Chowk on May 17 revealed that he had planned to take opium from Shariyat and supply it to Punjab.
Both Shariyat and Gopal acted as carriers for a major drug peddler Nizam based in Nagaland who collected opium and heroin from various small cultivators in North-East and supplied it to various middle-men located in Shahjahanpur, Bareilly and Allahabad, using trucks and other heavy vehicles to avoid being caught by police and enforcement agencies, the officer said.

Shariyat revealed that he got Rs 50,000 for each consignment transported from Dimapur to Delhi, from Nizam. Gopal helped him in driving the truck owned by him, he added.