According to a senior officer, “We received a tip-off, and acting on it, our team laid a trap near the Laxmi Nagar railway bridge close to Akshardham Metro Station on Thursday and apprehended a 22-year-old man, Talha Azhar, from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun.”
Delhi Police (IANS)
Three persons, including a peddler and a supplier, were arrested after the Delhi Police dismantled a drug syndicate, an official said on Tuesday. The police said that they have confiscated more than 100 grams of smack from their possession.
According to a senior officer, “We received a tip-off, and acting on it, our team laid a trap near the Laxmi Nagar railway bridge close to Akshardham Metro Station on Thursday and apprehended a 22-year-old man, Talha Azhar, from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun.”
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“A total of 94.53 grams of smack was seized from his possession,” the officer continued in his statement.
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With this, a case was registered at Mandawli police station under the relevant sections of the NDPS Act, and the officers took up further inquiry into this case.
During the sustained questioning with Azhar, he fessed up that he sourced the contraband from Azam Ali (23), who was also a native of Badaun, and supplied it to Pradeep Kumar Pal (33), a resident of Delhi’s Mandawli.
Following this lead, the team arrested Pal on Saturday with 23.22 grams of smack in his possession.
“Officers conducted raids that led them to Ali, who was the key supplier of the network, and the preliminary investigation disclosed that he was supplying psychotropic substances from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi for local distribution,” the officer said.
Azhar, who earlier ran a fruit stall in Patparganj, took to drug trafficking after incurring business losses and began sourcing smack from Ali. He later teamed up with Pal, who sold the contraband in pouches to addicts in East Delhi.
The officer also asserted that Pal has previous involvement in two criminal cases, police added.
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