INDORE: In the biggest ever brown sugar seizure in Indore, Pardeshipura police on Friday busted a drug trafficking network and seized 7.65 kg of the contraband – worth Rs 7.6 crore – from a man and his son-in-law who were transporting it to Howrah in West Bengal from Rajasthan.
Indore Police believe the drugs were being smuggled to Bangladesh or Myanmar through Bengal.
Additional commissioner Amit Singh said they have sought the help of Interpol, Central Bureau of Narcotics and Narcotics Control Bureau to carry forward the investigation.
Singh identified the suspects as Prasram Meghwal, 39, a resident of Barotha in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh, and Dharmendra Chouhan, 26, a native of Taal in MP’s Ratlam
Constables of Pardeshipura police station intercepted the two suspects during a routine check near Bheru Baba temple on Friday night. “They claimed to have come to Indore for a relative’s funeral, but their vague responses raised red flags. Officers examined them closely,” said Singh.
The two suspects arrested for smuggling brown sugar had halted in Indore to participate in the post funeral rituals of a family member when they were caught by two alert constables from Pardeshipura police station.
Pardeshipura police station in charge Pankaj Dwivedi said, both the men arrested with a consignment of 7.65 kg brown sugar work as labourers at the opium farms in Neemuch and Mandsaur.
Prasram, resident of Barotha in Pratapgarh of Rajasthan and his son-in-law Dharmendra, resident of Taal in Ratlam said during questioning that Dharmendra’s cousin had died by suicide on Holi. In order to meet the family, they decided to take a halt in Indore before leaving for West Bengal.
Parasram took a bus from Rajasthan and Dharmendra boarded it from Ratlam and they reached Indore together. Here they went to Pardeshipura and stayed with the family members. On Thursday night, both were on their way to the railway station when they were stopped by two constables, who started asking them questions.
“They were carrying a heavy bag and it seemed suspicious. When they were asked about it, they said that they had come to Pardeshipura to participate in the rituals. We asked them to open the bag and found drugs concealed in the cavity created by them,” said constable Rajendra Singh, who was accompanied by constable Jitendra Rajput on a regular checking drive. Singh said that they were shocked by the quantity of brown sugar and immediately informed senior officials.
“The accused had no idea that the brown sugar being carried by them for delivery was worth crores of rupees. They barely got Rs 10,000 to deliver one consignment,” said Dwivedi.
The accused told police that they were just asked to board a train to Kolkata and they would get a call two hours before the delivery time with the details of the location and the point person. One of the accused accepted delivering a similar consignment in January and last year for which he travelled via Ajmer. Additional commissioner Amit Singh has promised a reward of Rs 50,000 each to the constables who made the arrests.
Indore Police believe the drugs were being smuggled to Bangladesh or Myanmar through Bengal.
Additional commissioner Amit Singh said they have sought the help of Interpol, Central Bureau of Narcotics and Narcotics Control Bureau to carry forward the investigation.
Singh identified the suspects as Prasram Meghwal, 39, a resident of Barotha in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh, and Dharmendra Chouhan, 26, a native of Taal in MP’s Ratlam
Constables of Pardeshipura police station intercepted the two suspects during a routine check near Bheru Baba temple on Friday night. “They claimed to have come to Indore for a relative’s funeral, but their vague responses raised red flags. Officers examined them closely,” said Singh.
The two suspects arrested for smuggling brown sugar had halted in Indore to participate in the post funeral rituals of a family member when they were caught by two alert constables from Pardeshipura police station.
Pardeshipura police station in charge Pankaj Dwivedi said, both the men arrested with a consignment of 7.65 kg brown sugar work as labourers at the opium farms in Neemuch and Mandsaur.
Prasram, resident of Barotha in Pratapgarh of Rajasthan and his son-in-law Dharmendra, resident of Taal in Ratlam said during questioning that Dharmendra’s cousin had died by suicide on Holi. In order to meet the family, they decided to take a halt in Indore before leaving for West Bengal.
Parasram took a bus from Rajasthan and Dharmendra boarded it from Ratlam and they reached Indore together. Here they went to Pardeshipura and stayed with the family members. On Thursday night, both were on their way to the railway station when they were stopped by two constables, who started asking them questions.
“They were carrying a heavy bag and it seemed suspicious. When they were asked about it, they said that they had come to Pardeshipura to participate in the rituals. We asked them to open the bag and found drugs concealed in the cavity created by them,” said constable Rajendra Singh, who was accompanied by constable Jitendra Rajput on a regular checking drive. Singh said that they were shocked by the quantity of brown sugar and immediately informed senior officials.
“The accused had no idea that the brown sugar being carried by them for delivery was worth crores of rupees. They barely got Rs 10,000 to deliver one consignment,” said Dwivedi.
The accused told police that they were just asked to board a train to Kolkata and they would get a call two hours before the delivery time with the details of the location and the point person. One of the accused accepted delivering a similar consignment in January and last year for which he travelled via Ajmer. Additional commissioner Amit Singh has promised a reward of Rs 50,000 each to the constables who made the arrests.
