Kolkata: Cops seize heroin worth Rs 105 crore from Paikpara

KOLKATA: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police recovered more than 25kg heroin, worth around Rs 105 crore in open market, from a Paikpara house in north Kolkata in the wee hours of Tuesday. Two persons have been arrested so far in connection with the biggest heroin haul in the state in the recent times.
Cops found that the contraband was supplied to Kolkata and UP from Myanmar, Nagaland and Manipur.The arrested persons were identified as Moulana Fayazuddin (49), a resident of Kakching in Manipur, and Juber (40) from Bahraich in UP. The police are investigating whether the gang had any link with known drug lords based in UP-Nepal border. However, they have ruled out the possibility of the gang’s involvement with terror group funding in the northeast.
According to DCP (STF), Pradeep Kumar Yadav, the arrests came after continuous raids on heroin dealers since 2019. “On a tip-off, the STF’s anti-terror squad nabbed the UP-based narcotics dealer Juber and his Manipur-based counterpart Fayazuddin from Paikpara under Tallah police station,” he said.
A case under sections 21C and 29 of NDPS was registered at the STF police station and the accused were sent to police custody till February 4. “We will interrogate the duo who were paid for transportation of the contraband. We have come to know that a team was leaving for the UP. Juber and Fayazuddin are hawker and agricultural labourer, respectively. We suspect that they had supplied heroin to the city market,” said a police officer.
“The seized heroin appears to be purple-greyish and resembles the purple heroin that is mixed and can be life threatening. The suspected purple heroin is being sent to a laboratory to understand its contents. The purple heroin is an illegal drug that contains oxycontin, carfentanil and fentanyl. The last two ingredients are dangerous,” said police sources.
Cops suspect that the duo had made an arrangement, by which they exchanged the heroin with each other to make specific products ordered by their clients.
“We feel that the heroin was not brought from Mynammar, but from UP, MP and Rajasthan. A few quantity of the contraband was also brought from Afghanistan that saw bumper production of heroin crop in the past three years,” added the police.