In a breakthrough, police seized “brown sugar” worth Rs 30 lakh from two drug peddlers. The duo was transacting when the police nabbed them near Garib Nawaz Colony, which falls under the Jugsalai police station area on Monday night.
According to police, they have confiscated around 400 grams of the above-mentioned drug from the duo. They have been identified as Sadique Ansari (32), a resident of Muslim Bustee in Adityapur, and Hasiqur Rahman (40), a resident of Bansgara in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
Revealing details of the arrest, senior SP, M Tamil Vanan said that they had been informed about “two men meeting near the Railway Over-bridge close to Garib Nawaz Colony to peddle drugs around 10.30 pm”.
“Acting on the tip-off, we set up a team of police officials, which was headed by deputy superintendent of police (law and order) Alok Ranjan. As the information was specific, the police team dressed in plainclothes surrounded the locality. On being spotted, they were nabbed by the police. On searching, we found two packets of ‘brown sugar’, weighing 200 grams in possession of each. We immediately brought them to Jugsalai police station where they were interrogated,” said Vanan while addressing a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Vanan added Rahman, used to supply drugs sourced from Murshidabad to bootleggers in Jamshedpur and Adityapur in adjoining Seaikela-Kharsawan district.
“Rahman had brought two packets of the brown sugar, containing 200 grams each. He had handed over one of the packets to Sadique and had kept the other with himself, which would be passed on to some other person. However, before they could get away, the police nabbed the two red-handed,” said the senior police officer.
Vanan mentioned that recently three women had been arrested for selling drugs in small packets in the Jugsalai area. During interrogation, one of the accused, Rashida Khatoon, had tipped them about “a man coming from Murshidabad to hand over drugs to his local contacts”. Following this information, the police worked hard to arrest the man from Murshidabad.
According to the senior SP, Sadique would have made 20,000 packets, each containing one milligram of the ‘brown sugar’ for his customers. Each packet would have been sold at Rs 100.
“We will try to trace the drug traffickers in Murshidabad based on the information gathered from Rahman. If we fail to reach the main supplier, then we will take Rahman into police remand for further investigation. We might even take him to Murshidabad to nab the dealers,” he said.
