Delhi Police Busts Drug Smuggling Racket, Arrests Four

An inter-state drug cartel transporting high-grade opium has been arrested by a Special Cell team in East Delhi.

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• An inter-state drug cartel involved in smuggling of high-grade opium from the northeastern states, Jharkhand and Bihar to Delhi NCR region has been busted with the arrest of four traffickers, police said on 19 May 2016.
  

• A Special Cell arrested Shariyat Ali, Gopal, Javed and Sartaz Ali on a tip-off from Saboli area in Nanad Nagri in east Delhi on 16 May, revealed Sanjeev Yadav, DCP (Special Cell).
  

• Shariyat Ali and Gopal had brought the 69 kgs of high-grade opium all the way from Nagaland in a truck owned by the latter. Javed and Sartaz had come to receive the supplies when they were caught by the Special Cell team.

(With PTI Inputs)