The Delhi Police has arrested two persons and recovered around 510 kg of marijuana worth Rs 1.5 crore from the possession of the duo. Police said the duo used to supply marijuana in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR).
“The arrested duo, identified as Sube Singh (31), a resident of Ballabgarh in Haryana and Deepak (34), a resident of Delhi’s Okhla area are partners and work for one Dinesh Pal who is yet to be nabbed,” said Dr G Ram Gopal Naik, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime Branch.
“Sube and Deepak procured marijuana from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha Border (AOB) forests at cheap rates and sold them at higher prices in Delhi-NCR,” said the DCP adding that 17 bags containing 510 kg marijuana (cannabis) worth Rs 1.5 crore have been seized from them.
“On Thursday, a police team received a tip-off that an interstate drug peddlers gang would come near Tughlakabad village to deliver a huge consignment of marijuana concealed inside a special cavity in a truck bearing a Haryana registration number,” said the DCP.
“The suspects were apprehended and the contraband was seized while it was being transferred to a car. During interrogation, the two disclosed that they used to travel to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh border regularly by plane and purchased the contraband from Paidawalasa, a place near the AOB,” said the DCP.
“They usually smuggled drugs in a car or a truck but could not be caught during frisking of the vehicles as they concealed the contraband in the special cavity,” said the DCP.
“The two have been found previously involved in cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Sube was convicted in a case of NDPS in Faridabad and was on bail. He is also a Proclaimed Offender in another NDPS case in the district,” said the DCP adding that Deepak, is out on bail in two NDPS cases registered in Uttar Pradesh.