Truck driver arrested with 10 quintals of poppy husk

Raj Sadosh

Abohar, August 4
To escape the police attention, drug smugglers have now started using another app instead of WhatsApp. This was revealed during the interrogation of a truck driver, who was caught for illegally carrying around 10 quintals of poppy husk in a truck in Hanumangarh.
Police sources said on Sunday that suspect Ashfaq Ahmed (35), a resident of Nagaur, told them that about a year ago he had taken an old truck with the help of a private finance company. After five months, when he could not pay the instalments, the finance company confiscated the truck.
He said Bablu Jat, a resident of Makodi in Nagaur, got his truck released from the finance company and hired him as the driver of the truck since the vehicle was registered in his name. Bablu used to give him Rs 12,000 every month.
A day earlier, Bablu and another person handed over the truck to him near a hotel outside Alai village. The truck was loaded with poppy husk and was covered with a tarpaulin. Bablu asked him to take the truck to Hanumangarh and on reaching there Bablu would make a call to inform him to whom the consignment was to be delivered.
While examining Ahmad’s mobile phone, cops found that Bablu’s number was not saved in it. Bablu had installed a new app in his mobile phone. Bablu and Ashfaq used to talk through this app only. Virtual numbers of Bablu had been found saved in the name of Guddi and Boss Bhai in the app.
Bablu had reportedly explained to Ashfaq that unlike others, Zangi App was private as one could sign up as anonymous, and it doesn’t store communication data on servers and no server-side contacts sync.
Ashfaq said he reached Chauhilanwali village near Hanumangarh, his mobile phone got switched off. He was charging it in the truck near Kohala Toll naka on the mega highway and was going to proceed to deliver the poppy husk to someone when the police caught him. The police are now searching for Bablu.