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India News Live, Digital Desk : The Crime Branch of Goa Police has achieved a huge success in making Goa drug free. Police have busted a big inter-state heroin smuggling network and arrested the main kingpin of this entire black business from Uttar Pradesh. The main accused arrested has been identified as Ikhlaq Ahmed alias Manna Malik, who was nabbed by a special team of Goa Police from Bahraich district of UP. The strings of this drugs racket were not only connected to different states of India, but a big international angle has also come to light in it. Police have already arrested three Nepali citizens in this case, after interrogating them they succeeded in reaching the main mastermind of this entire racket.
This international smuggling network was exposed due to the raid on Betim Jetty
This entire high-profile case started on May 20, when the Goa Crime Branch received a secret information. After this, the police, as part of a well-thought-out strategy, conducted a swift raid near the Wholesale Fish Market located at Betim Jetty below the Mandvi Bridge. During this raid, the police caught two Nepalese nationals red-handed, who were identified as 36-year-old Arjun Biswakarma and 25-year-old Chetkant Oli. During the search, about 39.88 grams of high-quality heroin was recovered from them, whose estimated value in the international market was said to be around Rs 8.88 lakh. After the arrest of these two, when the Crime Branch started strict investigation, the layers of this drug network started being revealed one by one.
Order through mobile phone and payment through online banking, this is how the whole game was going on.
Based on the leads received from both the accused, the Crime Branch took the investigation forward and also arrested the third accused associated with this network, Narishor Bhandari, who is also a resident of Nepal. Very shocking revelations were made during the strict interrogation of these three foreign smugglers. Investigation revealed that these accused, sitting in Goa, used to order consignments of heroin from a big supplier based in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh through mobile phones. Advanced online banking and digital transactions were being used to hide money transactions in this illegal drug trade. As soon as the payment was confirmed, the delivery of heroin from Bahraich was sent to Goa, which these Nepali citizens used to consume at high prices in the coastal areas and party places of Goa.
Mastermind Manna Malik caught from Bahraich, UP, preparation to eliminate the entire gang
After technical surveillance and checking of online bank accounts, Goa Crime Branch completely located the main supplier Ikhlaq Ahmed alias Manna Malik, resident of Bahraich. Soon after this, the Goa Police team with the help of Uttar Pradesh Police conducted a raid in Bahraich and sent Manna Malik behind the bars. Senior police officers say that the arrest of the main kingpin is not the end of this case but the beginning. At present, the police have taken Manna Malik on remand and are trying to find out which other influential people are involved in this network. Along with this, further investigation is going on at a very fast pace to find out the main source (place of origin) of this consignment of drugs and to completely destroy this entire inter-state gang.
