Two drug-peddlers arrested

NEW DELHI: The narcotics branch of Delhi Police on Thursday arrested two alleged drug-peddlers. One of them is a 55-year-old woman.
Shakir Khan (24) was arrested from near Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital for selling heroin. The police also claimed to have seized 560 gm of heroin from the accused. He is a resident of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
In another incident, a woman was arrested near Appu Ghar on charges of drug trafficking.Police said that they had seized 1.5 kg of heroin from the Qamar Begam.
She had earlier been arrested by the UP Police in a fake currency case. Police said that the seized heroin is valued at more than Rs 2 crore in the international market.