Delhi police nab 3 drug peddlers with terror links
4 Feb 2014 5:49 AM IST
The trio, held for allegedly for smuggling heroin worth approximately Rs. 35 crores, was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Monday.
Constable Khurshid Alam and two other men from Tamil Nadu, B Ganesh and M Senthil, were held in Delhi carrying 10 kg of heroin.
Police said the kingpin of the syndicate is a Kuwait-based person known as Ali and money from the drugs racket was being used to fund terror activities. Hizbul members used to channelise the drug supply to India, said the police.
All three accused were produced before the court on Monday, where the cops informed special judge Anu Grover Baliga that the trio was not required for further custodial interrogation. They were subsequently remanded to judicial custody till 17 February.
‘Khurshid revealed that Fayyaz, an area commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, presently based in Pakistan’s Abottabad (army cantonment where Osama bin Laden was nabbed and killed in 2011), has been sending consignments of drugs through his conduits active in Uri sector of J&K,’ said a police official.
According to police, Fayyaz was active in Kashmir’s Ganderbal till 2006 and then reportedly went back to Pakistan and has been since facilitating infiltration of terrorists into India.
‘It has also been revealed that a significant portion of the proceeds of this trade gets remitted to Fayyaz for furthering the activities of his terrorist organisation,’ the police officer added.
Efforts are underway to probe deeper into the narco-terrorism nexus and to establish the identities of other major Indian as well as overseas actors of this syndicate. Information about the arrest of the J&K police constable has been given to the concerned authorities, said the police.
Constable Khurshid Alam and two other men from Tamil Nadu, B Ganesh and M Senthil, were held in Delhi carrying 10 kg of heroin.
Police said the kingpin of the syndicate is a Kuwait-based person known as Ali and money from the drugs racket was being used to fund terror activities. Hizbul members used to channelise the drug supply to India, said the police.
All three accused were produced before the court on Monday, where the cops informed special judge Anu Grover Baliga that the trio was not required for further custodial interrogation. They were subsequently remanded to judicial custody till 17 February.
‘Khurshid revealed that Fayyaz, an area commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, presently based in Pakistan’s Abottabad (army cantonment where Osama bin Laden was nabbed and killed in 2011), has been sending consignments of drugs through his conduits active in Uri sector of J&K,’ said a police official.
According to police, Fayyaz was active in Kashmir’s Ganderbal till 2006 and then reportedly went back to Pakistan and has been since facilitating infiltration of terrorists into India.
‘It has also been revealed that a significant portion of the proceeds of this trade gets remitted to Fayyaz for furthering the activities of his terrorist organisation,’ the police officer added.
Efforts are underway to probe deeper into the narco-terrorism nexus and to establish the identities of other major Indian as well as overseas actors of this syndicate. Information about the arrest of the J&K police constable has been given to the concerned authorities, said the police.
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