(MOREPIC1)Face2News/New Delhi
A team of Special Cell/SWR, under the supervision of ACsP Sh. Sanjay Dutt and Sh. Sunil Kumar, has arrested a wanted member of an interstate drug syndicate, namely Ashwani Kumar @ Ashu s/o Shrinivas Sharma r/o Sector 24 Rohini, Delhi, age 41 years. The accused was wanted in case FIR No. 258/2023, dated 06/10/2023, u/s 22/29/NDPS Act, PS Special Cell, Delhi.
Earlier in the month of October 2023, the team of Special Cell/SWR, led by Inspr. Manender Singh, Inspr. Sunil Kumar, and Inspr. Neeraj Kumar, arrested three members of this syndicate, namely (1) Md. Faizan Beg, r/o Kardampuri, Delhi; (2) Md. Zubair, r/o Kishanganj, Uttar Pradesh; and (3) Ms. Rekha, r/o Baba Kharag Singh Marg, New Delhi, as a significant quantity of contraband drugs was recovered from their possession. During their interrogation, it came out that Ashwani Kumar @ Ashu used to supply the drugs in bulk to Md. Zubair.
Thereafter, raids were conducted to apprehend Ashwani Kumar, but he absconded and was constantly changing his hideouts to evade arrest in the case. However, the incessant efforts of the Special Cell team paid off when the hideout of the accused, Ashwani Kumar @ Ashu, was located in Sector 24, Rohini, Delhi. Consequently, a police team comprising of Inspr. Sunil Kumar, HC Rajesh Rana, HC Sanjay, HC Amit Kumar, and HC Manish conducted a raid, and he was apprehended from Sector 24, Rohini. He was accordingly arrested in the case and taken on two days police custody remand.
(SUBHEAD)During his PC remand, 13 cartons of Alprazolam 0.5 mg tablets (total 4,68,000 tablets) were recovered at his instance from the transport booking office at Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, Samaipur Badli, Delhi. Further, three mobile phones and some incriminating documents have also been seized from his possession.
PROFILE AND INTERROGATION:
Sh. Ingit Pratap Singh, IPS, DCP, Special Cell, said, accused Ashwani Kumar @ Ashu was born in 1982 in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. His father is a farmer, and his mother is a homemaker. He studied up to 12th grade at an Inter College in Gulawati, UP, did B.Com. from Meerut College, Meerut, and then completed MBA from Pune. He got married in 2009 and has three children. Initially, he worked with pharmaceutical companies as a medical representative (MR). However, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a slump in the salary, and he left the job.
Thereafter, he opened a medical store in the name and style of ‘Ishan Medicine House’ in Udyog Nagar, Delhi, in partnership with one Rakesh. But the drug licence for the same was cancelled by the drug department in July 2023. However, he continued the medicine work by obtaining the licence in the name of one of his employees, namely Satish, in Udyog Nagar.
Contraband drugs like Arprazolam have lucrative profits, so he started procuring and supplying these drugs. He would procure the contraband drugs from various pharmaceutical companies and supply them to his associates, including Md. Zubair. Further investigation of the case is in progress.
