<![CDATA[Police busted a drug syndicate with the arrest of 2 drug peddlers on Friday. On Thursday, the police received a piece of confidential information that two members of a drug cartel namely Binod Rajbongshi (40) from Assam and Riyazuddin (39) from Uttar Pradesh would come to supply a consignment of drugs to one of their Delhi based contacts, Nasir.The police r DCP (Special Cell) Mr.Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said that after the police received the information they set a trap near Sector 18 Rohini metro station and the accused were nabbed. A search led to the recovery of 4.07 kg of heroin from them. During interrogation the accused told the police that the heroin was delivered to them by Assam resident Maina. Binod and Riyazuddin also revealed that they were involved in drug peddling for the past four to five years. He said that the accused would travel by road or train to Manipur and Golaghat in Assam to procure heroin from Maina. A Special Cell team has been sent to Golaghat to identify and arrest the main person of the syndicate. The accused Binod, in order to throw the police off track would sometimes descend from the train midway and switch modes of transport to reach his destination. Riyazuddin is a contractor with the UP Jal Nigam but took to peddling drugs to earn more money. The police suspect that Maina collects the heroin from the Manipur-Myanmar border.]]>
