New Delhi/ Nayagarh: A 19-year-old kingpin of a narco syndicate, was arrested along with four others for supplying drugs in the national capital and its peripheries, a Delhi Police official said Friday, adding that the chain of the syndicate ran from Delhi to Odisha.
The gang leader was identified as Harsh Vardhan, a resident of Gopalpur, Delhi, and his associates Ramesh Kumar Sharma alias Sonu (45), a resident of Tilak Nagar, Amit Kumar Tiwari alias Jam (29), a resident of Raghubir Nagar, and Arul Pandian (25), Jal Vihar, Lajpat Nagar while the source of cannabis was identified as Bishwajeet Mahapatra alias DJ (23), a resident of district Nayagarh, Odisha.
The Special Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that a specific input was received that a member of the drug syndicate would come to deliver a huge consignment of high quality of cannabis from Odisha to Delhi in the area of Gandhi Vihar.
A trap was laid and Vardhan was apprehended along with the 22.786 kg of cannabis.
On interrogation, it is revealed that Vardhan has recently raised a network of drug supply in the area of Delhi-NCR to earn easy money.
“He makes his customers in different parts of Delhi who can purchase cannabis from him on a regular basis. To expand the illegal business, he visited Odisha to check the source and supply of cannabis. Thereafter, he started visiting Bhuvneshwar, Odisha regularly (twice or thrice in a month) for purchasing cannabis and has been supplying the same in Delhi since the last five to six months,” said Yadav.
On Vardhan’s instance, Mahapatra was arrested and subsequently, Sharma, Tiwari and Pandian were also arrested.
IANS
