Ahmedabad: Policeman used uniform to camouflage Rs 1 crore drug run

AHMEDABAD: When Ahmedabad crime branch sleuths carried out an operation against narcos late on Saturday night, they were shocked to find one of their own among the drug traffickers.

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Ahmedabad’s Danilimda police station, Firozekhan Nagori, was detained in the Saturday night strike by the crime branch. Nagori, 50, a Jamalpur resident, was in a car with two other persons. The crime branch seized mephedrone, commonly known as MD, worth about Rs 1crore from the trio.
Crime branch sources said that the operation was launched after a tip-off was received that three men in a white car were coming from Mumbai with a consignment of 995 grams of mephedrone. A crime branch team positioned itself at CTM Crossroads near the expressway. Senior superintendent of police, Ahmedabad crime branch, Deepan Bhadran said that the team led by inspector A Y Baloch saw the car approaching from the toll plaza. “Our team intercepted the car and was taken aback to see ASI Nagori — in uniform — in the front seat,” Bhadran said. The subsequent search of the car yielded mephedrone.
Two other persons in the car were Mohammed Arif Kazi, 48, and Imran Padhiyar, 28. Both are Jamalpur residents as well.
Assistant commissioner of police, crime branch, B V Gohil said the interrogation of the trio revealed that Sahejadhussain Tejabwala and Imran Ajmeri had bought the drugs from a trafficker in Mumbai. Tejabwala and Ajmeri had given the consignment to Nagori.
Early on Sunday, Ahmedabad cops nabbed Tejabwala from Mumbai airport where he was waiting for a Hyderabad flight. Ajmeri was nabbed en route to Mumbai airport.