‘Kadhai’ drug smugglers have links in UP, MP, Bengal, confirms police
The Punjab police claimed in an FIR on Wednesday That drug smugglers who used to send drugs layered in Kadhai have connections in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bengal. The drug-smuggling module was busted three days ago in Jalandhar. Interrogation of the main accused who is a Canadian national, Davinder Singh Nirwal alias Dev allegedly used to smuggle the drugs in ‘kadhai’ (cauldrons). He had been remanded by the court to police custody and led to the network involving multiple suspects in various states. The Punjab police is now coordinating with counterparts in UP, MP and Bengal to nab the suspects, identified respectively as Alfaz, Ghanshyam and Belal. Dev, a proclaimed offender wanted by both the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), was arrested along with three associates by a joint team of the counter-intelligence wing and district police (Jalandhar Rural) for smuggling opium and “date rape drug” ketamine abroad by using courier service. -PTC News
