Delhi Police on Thursday arrested another person in connection with the city’s biggest-ever drug haul with investigators finding that the main accused had alleged links with leaders of a national political party, officials said.
The arrested accused, Jitender Gill alias Jassi, a UK resident but Indian national, was nabbed from near Punjab’s Amritsar airport this evening. He was intending to fly back to London, a senior police officer said.
Gill, aged around 40 years, had come to India to supervise the drug cartel’s operations in the country but was planning to escape after the arrest of four members, the officer said. He added that the accused had been living in UK for the past 25 years but did not have a citizenship.
He is being brought to Delhi and will be produced before the court on Friday to seek custody for interrogation, the officer said.
On Wednesday, the police claimed to have seized over 560 kilograms of cocaine and 40 kilograms of hydroponic marijuana estimated to be worth around Rs 5,620 crore from a godown in south Delhi’s Mahipalur.