Police arrest 'mastermind of Rajasthan-based international synthetic drug racket'
PATIALA: Less than 24 hours after wrestler-turned-druglord Jagdish Bhola levelled serious allegations against a Punjab minister and questioned the authenticity of police investigations into multicrore international drug cartel, the district cops on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a Canadian national, who was mastermind of the racket involving smuggling of drugs worth Rs 6000 crores out of India in the last few years.
Stating that the crimes committed by Bhola "stood nowhere in front of their latest catch", the police claimed that the NRI, who was last residing in Ontario province, had used even ships and air cargo to smuggle around 6000kg of ketamine, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine drugs to Canada. They termed NRI Devinder Singh alias Dev, who is in his early 50s and originally from a village in Sri Ganganagar district, as "mastermind of Rajasthan-based international synthetic drug racket".
Adding to the troubles of Bhola, who is facing more than half a dozen cases related to drug-trafficking, the police claimed that Dev had passed him over one quintal opium, which was further smuggled to foreign countries.
Patiala SSP H S Mann said police arrested Devinder, settled in Canada since 1972 and a frequent visitor to India before his arrest, on January 5. He was produced in Patiala court on January 6 and sent to police remand till January 14, he added.
"Besides smuggling precursor chemicals worth Rs 6000 crore, Devinder had also provided around one quintal to Bhola in two different consignments. Bhola had further smuggled opium out of India", said Mann.
"Precursor chemicals Katamine, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were procured by drug racketeers from Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi among others after diverting them from medicinal sectors and smuggled to Canada. The processing of the precursor chemicals to manufacture synthetic drugs was done mainly in Canada by Chinese and Vietnamese nationals," Mann said.
The officer said that the primary conduits for smuggling the contraband consignments into India were Pramod Tony, a Karol Bagh- based operative and another person who owned a ship, which was used to smuggle chemicals out of country.
'Deflective exercise'
Reacting to Bhola's allegations against Patiala police, Mann termed it as a "deflective exercise by a seasoned smuggler". The role of Bhola and his aides was being investigated by agencies like intelligence wing of BSF, enforcement directorate, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Intelligence Bureau, he said. To a query on Bhola's demand for shifting of the case to CBI, Mann replied, "This is the largest drug-racket of the country, which was busted by the Patiala police...My team has done it and we will continue to do it."
Stating that the crimes committed by Bhola "stood nowhere in front of their latest catch", the police claimed that the NRI, who was last residing in Ontario province, had used even ships and air cargo to smuggle around 6000kg of ketamine, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine drugs to Canada. They termed NRI Devinder Singh alias Dev, who is in his early 50s and originally from a village in Sri Ganganagar district, as "mastermind of Rajasthan-based international synthetic drug racket".
Adding to the troubles of Bhola, who is facing more than half a dozen cases related to drug-trafficking, the police claimed that Dev had passed him over one quintal opium, which was further smuggled to foreign countries.
Patiala SSP H S Mann said police arrested Devinder, settled in Canada since 1972 and a frequent visitor to India before his arrest, on January 5. He was produced in Patiala court on January 6 and sent to police remand till January 14, he added.
"Besides smuggling precursor chemicals worth Rs 6000 crore, Devinder had also provided around one quintal to Bhola in two different consignments. Bhola had further smuggled opium out of India", said Mann.
"Precursor chemicals Katamine, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were procured by drug racketeers from Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi among others after diverting them from medicinal sectors and smuggled to Canada. The processing of the precursor chemicals to manufacture synthetic drugs was done mainly in Canada by Chinese and Vietnamese nationals," Mann said.
The officer said that the primary conduits for smuggling the contraband consignments into India were Pramod Tony, a Karol Bagh- based operative and another person who owned a ship, which was used to smuggle chemicals out of country.
'Deflective exercise'
Reacting to Bhola's allegations against Patiala police, Mann termed it as a "deflective exercise by a seasoned smuggler". The role of Bhola and his aides was being investigated by agencies like intelligence wing of BSF, enforcement directorate, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Intelligence Bureau, he said. To a query on Bhola's demand for shifting of the case to CBI, Mann replied, "This is the largest drug-racket of the country, which was busted by the Patiala police...My team has done it and we will continue to do it."
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