- 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)