Heroin haul in Delhi: Lookout notice issued against two absconding Iranians

NEW DELHI: A lookout circular has been issued and immigration ports alerted regarding the two Iranian chemical experts who had come to India to allegedly extract and process the heroin smuggled in containers to Indian ports. Intelligence sources said that the two Iranians had been identified as Alireza Rajabi and Tohid Rajabi.
They were identified after their passport details were retrieved from the two Afghan nationals arrested by the Delhi Police special cell.The Afghanis identified as Rahimullah Rahimi and Mustafa Stanikzai told cops that such chemical experts, referred to in drug circles as doctors, often flew down to India on tourist or medical visas just for this task after the modules here collected the consignments.
These doctors then visited the makeshift labs created by modules in different states and initiated the process of extraction. TOI had reported on Friday that the cops were looking for two Iranians in connection with the drug haul. Special commissioner HGS Dhaliwal has formed a special team led by DCP Pramod Kushwaha to busy the entire nexus, an official said.
Elaborating on the Iran connection, sources said that the consignment was sent from Shahid Rajaei Port, Iran through a shipping company Asian Tiger Shipping LLC, Dubai. The consignment belonged to an entity named Jalali who was running a firm named Futuria in Ajman, UAE.
Cops suspect, the two absconding Iranian chemical experts are associates of Jalali who himself worked for the deputy chiefs of the heroin cartel Ahmed Shah and Baba Jani. Shah is an Afghan National based in Pakistan who has allegedly been coordinating the delivery of shipments via Iran using a web of firms.