STF got success, smack was being brought from Bareilly for supply in the hilly areas of Kumaon
Haldwani. STF has arrested an interstate drug smuggler from Udhamsinghnagar with 537 grams of smack. The value of the recovered smack is said to be Rs 55 lakh. The accused was on the STF’s radar for a year.
Senior Superintendent of Police STF Ayush Aggarwal disclosed this in a press conference on Friday. He told that on Thursday the input of big smack dealing was received on the UP-Uttarakhand border. Under the leadership of CO STF Kumaon Sumit Pandey and in-charge Inspector ANTF Pawan Swaroop arrested Mustaq Ali s/o Mitthu r/o Manihargot Tanakpur Champawat from Pulbhatta police station area of Udhamsinghnagar. A huge amount of smack was found in his possession.
During interrogation, he told that he had bought smack from Akbar, a resident of Bareilly, which was to be sold in the hilly areas of Rudrapur, Kichha, Sitarganj, Khatima, Tanakpur and Kumaon. A case has been registered against the accused under the NDPS Act. SSP told that this is the biggest action of STF against drug smuggling this year. The team included Vipin Chandra Joshi, Kamlesh Bhatt, Sanjay Kumar, Manmohan, Virendra Chauhan, Amarjeet, Rajendra Mehra, Naveen Kumar, Surendra Kanwal, Kishan Chandra Sharma, Pankaj Kumar.
