Chatra Police busted a gang of interstate opium smugglers on Thursday. The team of four includes Mozibur Rehman, brother of RJD leader Babu Kalal, two more men and a woman. The busted gang had eight kilograms of opium, Rs.4.61lakh cash, a car, one digital weight machine, and two mobile phones in possession, all of which were recovered by the police.

According to the police, this gang has links with Mumbai drug peddlers. An investigation has been initiated in connection with this case.

The arrested smugglers other than Rehman have been identified as Sarita Devi, Narendra Gupta, and Mohammad Javed.

Sharing the details, SP Rishav Kumar Jha, revealed that getting a tip-off about the opium smugglers in Itkhori block, he immediately constituted a team led by DSP(headquarter) Kedar Ram, subdivisional police officer Avinash Kumar, and Itkhori police station officer-in-charge Niranjan Kumar Mishra, including an armed team of police jawans. He said, “The team conducted the raid in a house at Itkhori, where they nabbed the four smugglers and recovered the opium, cash, and other items.”

Jha said, “We recovered around 4.7 kilograms of opium from Mozibur, around 2.5kilogram opium, and Rs.4.61lakh cash from Sarita.” According to him, they have been able to extract some more details of other smugglers who had managed to escape during the raid.” He added, “We will conduct an investigation and if we recover assets more than the known source of income of the arrested individuals then we will recommend the case to the enforcement directorate.”

Talking about Rehman, he confirmed the smuggler’s political connection. “He is the brother of RJD leader Babu Kalal,” he said. “He is involved in this illegal business and is having connections with suppliers of other states as well,” he added.