JAIPUR: A day after the crime branch-crime investigation department (CB-CID) facilitated the arrest of a narcotics smuggler with 5kg of charas from Tatiyawas in Chomu, police are investigating if Rajasthan is safer for narcotics smuggling than Pakistan and Punjab.
The seized drugs was actually smuggled into Anantnag (J&K) through Pakistan and later sent to Amritsar and was finally brought to Rajasthan by the smuggler who was arrested on Thursday.
A team of Jaipur police also reached Amritsar to take custody of Bashir, the kingpin who got the narcotics from Pakistan to Anantnag and had delivered it to Aarif Ali, the smuggler who was taking it to Ajmer. Ali was arrested on Thursday.“During investigation it was found that Aarif Ali had brought charas many a times and had been doing it for a long time. Our job was to nab him and we have handed him over to Chomu police,” said Pushpendra Singh, DSP, CB-CID on Friday.
Senior officers of crime branch said the module had been unearthed for the first time when narcotics smuggled from Pakistan was brought to Rajasthan. “If we will get more inputs or information in the matter, we will mutually share it with Jaipur police who is investigating the case now,” said Singh.
Meanwhile, Jaipur police is all set to take Bashir under its custody.
“In order to get finer details and to get deeper into the whole nexus, the interrogation of Bashir would be important. Our team has reached Amritsar and he would be brought to Jaipur on Friday evening. He would be interrogated to know if Pakistani smugglers and smugglers from Punjab are finding Rajasthan as a soft target in narcotics smuggling,” said Ajay Pal Lamba, additional commissioner of police (crime).
