Narcotics valued at Rs 85 crore were seized and six people, including a woman were arrested in two separate operations, the Delhi Police informed on Saturday.

According to an official, Special Cell of Delhi Police conducted two separate operations leading to the seizure of a total of 101.62 kg opium and 2 kg heroin, worth more than Rs 85 crore in international market, and Rs 7.5 lakh hawala money.

He said that six people, identified as— Lakhpat Singh (43), Suresh (24), Prakash Puri (39), all residents of Uttar Pradesh; Dal Chand (36), a resident of Uttrakhand; Taslima Begum (38), a resident of Assam; and Ravi Prakash (34), a resident of Delhi—were arrested during the two anti-drug raids.

Giving details, a senior official of the Delhi Police said that the first operation was conducted on April 23 following intel that two of the accused, Lakhpat and Suresh would arrive at the Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar around 10 am in their truck to supply opium to one of the contacts of another accused Dal Chand.

Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) H G S Dhaliwal, said that following the tip-off, a raid was conducted in which Lakhpat and Suresh were nabbed and 5.31 kg opium was recovered from the possession of Lakhpat and 96.31 kg opium concealed between 682 gunny bags containing coconuts, was recovered from the truck.

The officer said that the arrested men revealed further information about their cartel during interrogation and a team was dispatched to Kichha in Uttrakhand, where they arrested Dal Chand, adding that another key member of the drug cartel, Puri, was later arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Barielly and Rs 7.5 lakh of black money was seized from his residence.

The top cop further informed that based on another piece of intel about an Assamese woman involved in drug trafficking who was procuring heroin and other narcotics from suppliers in northeastern states.

The intel informed that the woman would arrive at the Shakur Basti Railway Station to supply heroin to one Ravi.

Based on the information, a trap was laid and both the accused were arrested along with 2 kg of heroin, the senior officer said, adding that further investigation is underway.

The Delhi High Court has asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a response to the bail request by former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who was arrested by the probe agency in connection with the purported liquor policy scam case.

Delhi HC judge Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma on Thursady issued a notice to the ED on the regular bail plea and interim bail application of Manish Sisodia and asked the federal agency to file a verification report within a week while listing the matter for further hearing on May 11.

The high granted time to the ED to respond to Sisodia’s regular bail plea and an interim bail request which the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader has filed on the grounds of his wife’s ill health.

Sisodia’s counsel, senior advocate Dayan Krishnan and Mohit Mathur submitted that the former deputy CM’s wife has been suffering from multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease, for the last 20 years and it was likely to get worse. However, the Enforcement Directorate opposed the plea on the grounds that Sisodia was the prime accused and key conspirator in the case.

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On April 28, Sisodia was denied relief by a trial court  which dismissed his bail plea on April 28 while observing that evidence prima facie “speaks volumes of his involvement in commission of the offence.”

Sisodia’s regular and interim bail pleas in the case lodged by CBI are also listed for hearing during the day before Justice Sharma.

The senior AAP leader was arrested by the ED on March 9 in Tihar Jail where he was lodged after being arrested by the CBI in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam case.

Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy ‘scam’ case.

At an earlier hearing, the ED had told the court that Sisodia was allegedly involved in “large-scale destruction of digital evidence to impede the investigation” and had purportedly changed and destroyed 14 phones.

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In a shameful case of abuse of authority, a hostel warden at a Delhi nursing college allegedly harassed and strip-searched two students after accusing them of theft, officials said on Thursday.

According to the police, the cops received a PCR call at around 1 pm on Tuesday, informing them of the incident wherein two female students at the Ahilyabai College of Nursing of LNJP hospital, were allegedly humiliated, harassed, and stripped by the warden of the college hostel on suspicion of theft.

A senior police official said that during investigation, the police found that the two young women—both BSC nursing final year students at the college—who reside at the institution’s hostel, had gone for a community programmme in the Mandi House area along with other students and accompanied by the warden.

Upon returning the warden found Rs 8,000 missing from her bag and suspected the two victims of stealing from her, the official said, adding that the warden then stripped down the two students with the help of other students, but the money wasn’t found in their possession.

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The humiliated students then informed their parents of their ordeal who then arrived at the hostel, lodged a complaint with the college administration and later filed a complaint at the IP Estate police station, alleging that the girls were stripped and harassed by the warden and other students.

Based on the complaint by the victims’ parents’, the a zero FIR under section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at IP Estate police station, police said, adding the case will be transferred to Tilak Marg police station.

They said that the college has formed a fact-finding committee, comprised of the principal and other senior faculty members to probe the incident and the warden has been shifted from the hostel.

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