Police bust opium smuggling racket, arrest four

A team of Special Cell arrested Shariyat Ali, Gopal, Javed and Sartaz Ali on a tip off from Saboli area in Nanad Nagri in east Delhi, on May 16, said Sanjeev Yadav, DCP(Special Cell).

Shariyat Ali and Gopal had brought the 69 kg of high grade opium all the way from Nagaland in a truck owned by the later. Javed and Sartaz had come to receive the supplies when they were caught by the Special Cell team. Shariyat during interrogation revealed that a Saharanpur based drug trafficker Israr was also scheduled to receive opium from him, he said.

Israr who was caught by the Special Cell team from Mukarba Chowk on May 17 revealed that he had planned to take opium from Shariyat and supply it to Punjab. Both Shariyat and Gopal acted as carriers for a major drug peddler Nizam based in Nagaland, the officer said.