This is the first time a banned terrorist outfit
Hizb-Ul-Mujahidin member was caught with huge haul of drugs worth Rs 35 crores
in the national capital meant to raise funds to carry out terror strikes in
India.
The anti-terror unit of Delhi Police – Special Cell --
exposed narco-terrorism trail with arrest of constable of Jammu and Kashmir
police who is a member of Pakistan-based Hizb-Ul-Mujahidin and was carrying out
drug trafficking in India.
The constable has been identified as Khurshid Alam, who is a
resident of Guthali Bagh in Ganderbal of Jammu and Kashmir Police. “He was
arrested from Humayun Tomb in Nizamuddin while he was giving drugs to two truck
drivers of Perambudur district of Tamil Nadu -- B. Ganesh, and M. Senthil,”
said Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) S N Srivastava.
A total of 10 Kgs of heroin, worth approximately Rs 35 in
the international market has been recovered from their possession.
“As per the investigations conducted so far, the kingpin of
this syndicate is a Kuwait-based Ali,” said Srivastava adding that Ali
orchestrates the activities of this drug cartel over phone and through internet
telephony. Ali co-ordinates with Pakistan-based terrorist organisation
Hizb-Ul-Mujahidin members for channeling drug supplies into India.
Arrested Constable Khurshid revealed that Fayyaz, an area
commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin, presently based in Abottabad in Pakistan has
been sending consignments of drugs through his conduits active in Uri sector of
Jammu and Kashmir. “Fayyaz uses the money they he get from this trade to
carry out terror activities,” said the officer.
The officer said that Fayyaz has pumped around contraband
worth around 200 crore in India and most of the time Khurshid Alam was
involved. “From August last year, Khurshid Alam has came to Delhi around eight
to ten times with drug consignment,” said the officer.
Fayyaz is a known cadre of Hizb-ul-Mujahidin who was active
in Ganderbal area of Kashmir valley till 2006 and thereafter, returned to
Pakistan and has been since acting as a launch commander for terrorists who
infiltrate into India to carry out terrorist strikes.
In August, 2013, Fayyaz sent five militants sent who
were killed in a counter-insurgency operation in Penag area of Ganderbal in
Jammu and Kashmir. “We are probing whether Khurshid Alam was involved in five
killed terrorists to infiltrate in the country,” said the officer.
The police is probing Alam role of provide logistic support
to these terrorists. During interrogation, the police have also found
that Alam and Fayyaz were distant relatives.
“They were on nabbed on January 19, following a tip-off. The
police came to know that two people from Tamil Nadu, who had come to Delhi,
will be collecting drugs from a Kashmiri supplier near the Humayun Tomb in
Nizamuddin. A raid was conducted and accused B. Ganesh, M. Senthil and
Constable Khurshid Alam were apprehended with heroin,” said the officer.
During interrogation, Alam told police he was in touch with
Fayyaz had received consignments from his several conduits in Srinagar which
was onward carried by him to Delhi, where South Indian members of this cartel
received the consignments’ for onward delivery in Chennai.
He further disclosed that he had been visiting Delhi for
over the last one year and has, so far, supplied around 80 kgs of heroine to
several conduits and cartel members. On every occasion, persons belonging to
South India had been the receivers from Khurshid.
During interrogations of Ganesh and Senthil, they told
police disclosed that they are member of an international drug syndicate being
run by Ali, who hails from Tamil Nadu and is presently based in Kuwait.
A man named of a code name of man - Gopi (identity yet to be
established) -- operates as the resident manager on behalf of Ali and looks
after South India operations by managing carriers and suppliers and controls
their movements. Ganesh and Senthil were roped into the trade by some downward
links of Gopi against the promise of handsome money for each successful receipt
of consignments from Delhi and their safe delivery in Tamil Nadu.
“Efforts are underway to probe deeper into the
narco-terrorism nexus and to establish the identities of other Indian as well
as overseas-based terrorist of this syndicate,” added the officer.
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