Ten ‘drug mules’ arrested in one month

New Delhi: Last Thursday, the Delhi police crime squad arrested three African nationals for allegedly supplying drugs in Delhi and NCR and 95 gram cocaine was also seized from their possession in Dwarka.

This is probably the tenth crackdown against drug traffickers in the city in 2017. While the drug cartels are busy supplying drugs in the city, the cops are sniffing out these cartels and unearthing huge cache. In the month of February, in a high-profile case, the special cell had busted an international drug syndicate which had its roots out in UK and Dubai. The sleuths had exposed the racket criss-crossing across six continents, involving an international Commonwealth athlete, who was an acting module of Delhi and Mumbai-based agents.

The city police have upped their game against drug peddlers this year and are continuing their crackdown. According to latest data by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the agency seized 225 kgs of various category of narcotics like heroin, cocaine, methaqualone and amphetamine as part of its 47 operations in the NCR region during this time, a rise of about 34 per cent as compared to the 167 kgs of such recoveries by the agency during the 2014-15 fiscal year.

The sleuths have so far seized drugs like cocaine, Meow, ecstasy and methamphetamine along with others. After the crackdown on these syndicates and drug ring prevalent in the capital, Delhi is now touted as one of the main hub of traffickers. In the recent past, a string of drug mules, mainly comprising of swallowers, were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau.

“In the last month alone, the NCB has arrested ten Africans for drug trafficking. Out of them, three were swallowers. Drug mules employ various tactics to swallow the pills. They use water proof plastic, condoms, or they cut out gloves used for surgeries and conceal the contraband in them,” said a NCB official.