Man arrested with opium worth Rs 1 crore
26 Aug 2014 11:39 PM GMT
Police on Sunday arrested a man with 10 kilograms of opium worth Rs 1 crore in international market.
On Sunday, a team of officials from the crime branch of the Delhi Police arrested a man, named Vinod Meghwal (29), who hails from Pratapgarh in Rajasthan. He is a school dropout and worked as a casual labourer in the grain fields there. He was lured by a drug trafficker to supply drugs to Delhi and was apprehended when he came to deliver a consignment.
With the arrest of a drug trafficker on Sunday, total opium recovery so far this year by the Delhi Police has touched 18 kilograms.
Despite full alertness and frequent raids, the total opium recovered so far this year by Police is not even one-fourth of the average opium recovery of the past three years, reveals records.
The records show that more than 144 kg, 49 kg and 60 kg of opium was recovered from the national capital in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
‘Large quantities of opium are routed directly to the rural areas in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. It is no longer channelled through Delhi, as the city hardly has any demand for that’, said a senior police official, explaining the decline of opium recovery in Delhi.
He further said that opium demand has been declining overall, ‘because the younger generation has unfortunately moved to other drugs and the elder opium-consuming population is falling down day
by day.’
Patparganj is close to the authorised poppy cultivation belt on the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh borders. It is from the poppy cultivation zone, large quantities of opium and poppy heads are siphoned off. ‘That poppy is later used in the production of heroin after mixing it up with acetic anhydrite,’ the police official added.
On Sunday, a team of officials from the crime branch of the Delhi Police arrested a man, named Vinod Meghwal (29), who hails from Pratapgarh in Rajasthan. He is a school dropout and worked as a casual labourer in the grain fields there. He was lured by a drug trafficker to supply drugs to Delhi and was apprehended when he came to deliver a consignment.
With the arrest of a drug trafficker on Sunday, total opium recovery so far this year by the Delhi Police has touched 18 kilograms.
Despite full alertness and frequent raids, the total opium recovered so far this year by Police is not even one-fourth of the average opium recovery of the past three years, reveals records.
The records show that more than 144 kg, 49 kg and 60 kg of opium was recovered from the national capital in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.
‘Large quantities of opium are routed directly to the rural areas in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. It is no longer channelled through Delhi, as the city hardly has any demand for that’, said a senior police official, explaining the decline of opium recovery in Delhi.
He further said that opium demand has been declining overall, ‘because the younger generation has unfortunately moved to other drugs and the elder opium-consuming population is falling down day
by day.’
Patparganj is close to the authorised poppy cultivation belt on the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh borders. It is from the poppy cultivation zone, large quantities of opium and poppy heads are siphoned off. ‘That poppy is later used in the production of heroin after mixing it up with acetic anhydrite,’ the police official added.
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