Mumbai: Two-timing cop informer held with Rs 1.4 crore drugs

MUMBAI: In a reminder of the Baby Patankar drug case, the Anti-Narcotic Cell of the city police on Monday arrested a police informer who only fronted as an informer but allegedly indulged in narcotics and collected protection money from peddlers for smooth business.
Though 51-year-old Khalid Wasi Khan has been running the drug peddling and extortion business for all these years, he came under the radar after deputy commissioner of police Shivdeep Lande and his team received secret information that Khan was indulging in drug peddling.
"We had got information after which we collected more details and we later learnt that the accused, who was a police informer between 2000 and 2004, was into drug peddling and at times he also threatened other drug dealers to carry out raids and used to collect protection money from them." said deputy commissioner of police Lande.
Acting on the information, the Anti-Narcotic Cell kept a watch on his activities and on Monday caught him red handed with 470 grams of heroin worth Rs 1.41 crore.
The police said that initially he genuinely worked as a police informer and gave many tip-offs that led to arrests and seizure of drugs but later things changed when his wife was arrested in a drug peddling case by the Bandra police. Lately, he used women to deliver drugs to various peddlers in the city.
"As he used to move around with police officials during various raids, he became very popular among drug peddlers. Soon he started collecting protection money from the drug peddlers threatening to blow the lid off their racket. Secondly he has also been fooling policemen under the pretext of giving good information on drugs but never gave any of late," said an officer.