The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has nabbed a 37 year-old wanted drug trafficker from Delhi’s Seelampur area. A reward of Rs 1 lakh was declared by the Delhi Police while Rs 50,000 reward was declared by Uttar Pradesh police on information leading to his arrest.

The accused has been identified as Tamoor Khan alias Bhola, a resident of village Behra in UP’s Bareilly area. Police said that Tamoor had built the image of local Robinhood in the area surrounding his village which is the main reason that locals used to give him prior information about police which helped him in evading every time police raided his house.      

According to Chinmoy Biswal, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime Branch’s Narcotics Cell, specific inputs were received that the most wanted drug trafficker, Tamoor would be going Seelampur from Bareilly or Lakhimpur Khiri in UP in search of shelter.

“A police team laid a trap and intercepted Tamoor while he was avoiding the main road at Seelampur in-front of Metro station and was going through the side lane. He tried to escape, however, he was overpowered by the police team,” said the DCP.

“Tamoor, in order to earn quick money, started selling drugs and for that a local drug supplier in his village also gave him a task to carry his smack to Delhi and paid Rs 1,600 per trip,” said the DCP.

“After getting arrested in 2008, Tamoor also remained in prison for seven months but after coming out of prison, he again joined the local drug supplier and started trafficking drugs from Bareilly to

Delhi. He worked with him as a contraband carrier for several years. In order to evade arrest, he stopped using mobile phone and used to hide in sugarcane fields whenever police raided his house,” said the DCP.

“In due course of time, Tamoor learnt the art of making heroin from crude which is extracted from Afeem. He then developed his own group of drug suppliers and traffickers in Bareilly and started supplying drugs to drug suppliers in Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan,” said the DCP.

“Interrogation has revealed that the consignment of Opium crude is being received by the drug traffickers of Bareilly from Jharkhand, West Bengal and Manipur,” said the DCP.

“He became so well known in drug trafficking and kept evading for such a long period of time that Delhi Police and UP Police declared reward on his arrest. Nine cases including rape and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) act has been registered against Tamoor across Delhi and Uttar Pradesh,” said the DCP.

“Tamoor’s arrest has made a significant dent in the interstate network of drug traffickers supplying Heroin in Delhi. The Narcotics Cell is conducting further crackdown to break the backbone of Bareilly-Delhi drugs supply network,” the DCP added.