JAIPUR: The Crime Branch — Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) wing of Rajasthan police — in association with Jaipur Police on Thursday busted an international racket of narcotics and arrested a smuggler with 5 kg of charas which costs nearly Rs 1 crore in the international market.
The haul — that was smuggled into India via Pakistan through Anantnag (Jammu) — was to be delivered in Ajmer.
It came through Anantnag to Amritsar and then Jaipur.
Ravi Prakash Meherda, additional director general (crime), stated that the crime branch has been keeping a watch on the smugglers operating in Rajasthan.
“We had some vague inputs which were developed by our team and it was found that a man identified as Aarif Ali was bringing charas to Rajasthan and would take it to Ajmer. We got the breakthrough when the accused was found with illegal possession of 5 kg charas while travelling in a bus.”
Pushpendra, deputy superintendent of police, CID-CB, said, “We found that the accused Aarif Ali got this haul of narcotics from one Basir, a drug smuggler active in Anantnag of Jammu Kashmir."
"It was found that Aarif has been in constant touch with Bashir and had brought narcotics in Rajasthan earlier. He has been caught for the first time. It appears that the smugglers of Pakistan through their men in Kashmir are looking for Punjab as well as Rajasthan to be their soft target in narcotics smuggling," he said.
Meanwhile, in the evening the crime branch with the help of Punjab police managed to detain Bashir while he was on his way to Kashmir from Amritsar in the bus.
“Our team will bring Bashir to Jaipur. We will interrogate Bashir and Aarif,” Singh added.
A team of crime branch camping in Amritsar is in touch with the Punjab police to take Bashir in their custody.
