Delhi Police on Thursday seized 200 kilogram Cocaine worth Rs 2,000 crore, days after Rs 5,620 crore drug bust, sources said.
In the latest raid, Delhi Police’s Special Cell recovered drugs from Ramesh Nagar area in west Delhi.
Earlier on October 3, the police, in one of Delhi’s biggest drug busts, claimed to have seized over 560 kilograms of cocaine and 40 kilograms of hydroponic marijuana estimated to be worth around Rs 5,620 crore from a godown in Mahipalur.
The special cell had arrested four people — Tushar Goyal (40), Himanshu Kumar (27) and Aurangzeb Siddiqui (23) of Delhi and Bharat Kumar Jain (48) of Mumbai — and confiscated the consignment weighing over 602 kilograms which were kept in sacks in the godown.
A senior officer said Goyal is the mastermind of syndicate operating in India, adding it emerged during interrogation that all the four accused were planning to sell a large quantity of drugs in concerts, rave parties and upscale localities in Delhi and other metropolitan cities.
BJP Vs Congress Over Delhi Drug Bust
The BJP had earlier claimed that the arrested ‘kingpin’ in one of the largest drug busts in the national capital is linked to the Congress party. They alleged that the arrested suspect is the chairman of Delhi Youth Congress’ RTI cell. In response, the youth wing of Indian National Congress (INC) strongly denied these allegations, saying that the BJP is misleading the public with “lies and deception.”
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had earlier attacked the Congress over the Delhi drug seizure, and accused it of turning entire north India into a hotspot of illegal drug trade when it was in power before 2014.
Shah said the arrested accused, Tushar Goel, is the chairman of the Delhi Youth Congress’ RTI cell. Giving data about the seizures made during the last 10 years, Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Drugs Free India’ campaign soon after assuming office in 2014.
Before Modi became the prime minister, Congress had made entire north India, be it Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana or Delhi, a hotspot of drug trade, Shah said, adding that the Modi government took decisive steps against this trade. In Gujarat also, our BJP government seized drugs of Rs 8,500 crore in just three years.
(With PTI inputs)
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