NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old man was arrested allegedly with heroin worth over Rs 1.5 crore on him, police said on Tuesday.
The accused — identified as Juned Khan alias Juber, a resident of Bareilly in UP — who had been bringing contraband into the city for the last one-and-half-year had come to Delhi to deliver the contraband in his vehicle on direction of a man, Ishrat, police said.
According to police, Khan had come in contact with Ishrat of Aliganj in UP in 2016 as both were involved in drug peddling in various areas in Bareilly, police said.
"We had received a tip-off about Khan that he would come to Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi with a huge consignment of heroin to deliver to someone. A raid was conducted and the accused was nabbed with 1.541 kilogram heroin worth over Rs 1.5 crore and an SUV car," PTI quoted special commissioner of police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav as saying.
With PTI inputs
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