Cocaine cartel members rented car to get to West Delhi — didn’t know it had GPS. Cops followed the trail

All constabulary had to bash was sojourn the Ghazabiad retention facility, look astatine its CCTV successful which they saw the car, hint the said car to a transporter, and travel the car’s GPS route.

This led cops consecutive to the West Delhi store successful Ramesh Nagar, wherever they recovered 208 kg of cocaine worthy implicit Rs 2,000 crore.

Seven radical person been arrested truthful acold successful transportation with the racket truthful acold — Tushar Goel, Auranzeb Siddiqui, Himanshu Kumar, Bharat Jain, Jassi aka Jitendar, A. Safi and Md. Akhlaq. The mastermind, Dubai-based Virendra Baisoya, is yet to beryllium nabbed; a lookout announcement has been issued against him, said police.

How did constabulary find the godown?

It was portion questioning Safi, from Tamil Nadu, that constabulary recovered retired helium had brought the consignment to Hapur. From there, Safi and Akhlaq allegedly took it to the Ghaziabad retention facility. When constabulary went to the facility, they recovered it was leased by an MBA postgraduate who thought she was moving for a pharma company, constabulary sources said.

“She revealed determination were 4 radical who loaded antithetic parts of the consignment from the godown successful Ghaziabad. Two were Jassi and Goel. The different 2 were Savinder Singh, a UK resident, and Safi,” a constabulary serviceman said connected information of anonymity.

Police past checked the facility’s CCTV footage and confirmed Savinder and Safi’s presence, officers added. They spotted the Ertiga car connected footage and traced it to a transporter. “Akhlaq rented the car from the transporter. The aforesaid car was utilized to get the drugs to Ramesh Nagar. It had a GPS (tracker), which the accused were unaware of. That’s however the car was tracked,” a constabulary serviceman said.

The serviceman further said aggregate radical progressive successful the retention and question of the consignment from South India to Delhi were nether the guise that it was a ‘medicine’ consignment of a pharma company. “They were paid monthly salaries done mule accounts. We are moving connected tracking each the unaware ‘employees’ of the cartel,” the serviceman said.

The full consignment of 770 kg recovered by Special Cell sleuths, led by DCP (Trans Yamuna Range/Southern Range) Amit Kaushik, was transported successful 2 tranches of 562 kg and 208 kg. The full batch was stored successful the Ghaziabad installation earlier it entered Delhi, constabulary officers said.

Police said the archetypal batch was busted connected October 1 successful a godown successful Mahipalpur wherever 562 kg cocaine was seized and 4 radical were arrested, including Goyal, the Delhi distributor and Baisoya’s long-time friend. Goyal was being tracked since August by the Special Cell, said police.

On October 3, Jassi, a UK nonmigratory allegedly assigned by Baisoya to guarantee retention of the drug, was arrested from Amritsar airdrome portion trying to flee. Singh has fled to London, said police.