The seized drugs
NEW DELHI: Following leads emerging from the investigation of the blast outside the Israel embassy in January this year, Delhi Police’s Special Cell stumbled upon a huge Taliban-led drug cartel pumping in grade-A heroin into India. Contraband weighing 54kg and worth over Rs 275 crore in the international market has been recovered and five men have been arrested.
With the US forces on their way out of Afghanistan, apparently several new poppy-heroin processing modules have become operational. Gunny sacks and garments soaked in heroin are being sent to Delhi-NCR and seasoned chemical experts arrive on medical visas to execute the complex heroin reconstitution operations at scattered locations in the region.