Rajasthan: International drug racket busted, 5kg charas seized; 1 arrested

JAIPUR: Busting an international racket of narcotics smuggling, the Crime Branch, Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) wing of Rajasthan police in association with Jaipur police on Thursday arrested a smuggler with illegal possession of 5 kg of charas which costs nearly Rs 1 crore in the international market.
The haul was smuggled into India via Pakistan through Anantnag (Jammu) and was to be delivered in Ajmer and came through Anantnag to Amritsar and then Jaipur.
ADG (crime) Ravi Prakash Meherda, stated that the crime branch has been keeping a watch on the smugglers operating in Rajasthan.
“We had some vague inputs which were developed by our team and it was found that a man identified as Aarif Ali was bringing charas to Rajasthan and will take it further to Ajmer. We got the breakthrough when the accused was found with illegal possession of 5 kg charas while travelling in a bus.”
Deputy superintendent of police, CID-CB, Pushpendra said, “We found that accused Aarif Ali got this haul of narcotics from one Basir, a drug smuggler active in Anantnag of Jammu Kashmir. It was found that Aarif has been in constant touch with Bashir and had brought narcotics in Rajasthan earlier. He has been caught for the first time. It appears that the smugglers of Pakistan through their men in Kashmir are looking for Punjab as well as Rajasthan to be their soft target in narcotics smuggling.”
Meanwhile, in the evening the crime branch along with Punjab police detained Bashir while he was on his way to Kashmir from Amritsar in a bus.