Curated marijuana supply chain racket busted

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 4

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today busted a drug racket supplying curated marijuana or ‘buds’ between Delhi and Mumbai. Accused Fahim Ahmed was held with the contraband worth Rs 17.5 crore.

A senior NCB official said the agency sleuths conducted coordinated raids in Delhi and Mumbai, and seized about 3.5 kg of ‘buds’ that cost around Rs 5,000 per gram. |

The official said the seized stuff was sourced from Canada or the US and was to be taken to Goa from Mumbai.

The NCB’s initial probe indicated that the suppliers of these drugs were in contact with Bollywood celebrities. The accused, who works as a driver at a resort in Goa, talked about it.

The role of some prominent drug suppliers based in Bengaluru is also under the scanner, the official said.

“The contraband was seized from foreign post offices in Delhi and Mumbai based onspecific inputs.”

In Delhi, another official said the ‘bud’ was found to be from the US and the consignee of the contraband was based in the city, but he was misguided by his contact in Mumbai that some legal stuff was being procured from the US and the same was to be collected by Mumbai-based persons, whose search was on.