AJMER: Civil Lines police on Tuesday arrested a woman and seized 95 grams of Mephedrone drugs from her possession.
The woman brought the drug from Mumbai to sell it in Ajmer. The market cost of the seized drug is around Rs 3 lakh.
The accused woman’s husband and brother-in-law are in jail in Indore for trafficking drugs.
Police are now trying to uncover the network of drug trafficking at work in the city.
According to police, they got a tip-off that a woman was trying to sell drugs in Civil Lines area. Police reached the spot and nabbed the woman and seized the drug from her possession.
The woman has been identified as Farzana (39), a resident of Lohakhan.
Police claimed that during interrogation, the accused accepted that she brought the drug from Mumbai to then sell it in Ajmer.
She was in need of money as her husband Razaak has been declared a history-sheeter and was arrested last year with his brother Khurshid.
They were out on bail and then started drug trafficking again. Later this year in January, they were caught by Madhya Pradesh police with drugs and at present, they are both are in Indore Jail.
There are 22 cases of drug trafficking registered against Razaak and Khurshid in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and also in Rajasthan.
Police said that the accused accepted that after her husband and his brother were caught, she took on the charge of drug trafficking and brought Mephedrone from Mumbai in stock and was selling it in small packets, mostly to youngsters.
Police are now working with their counterparts in Mumbai police to share the information received from the accused during interrogation and are probing the larger network at play in Ajmer.
The woman brought the drug from Mumbai to sell it in Ajmer. The market cost of the seized drug is around Rs 3 lakh.
The accused woman’s husband and brother-in-law are in jail in Indore for trafficking drugs.
Police are now trying to uncover the network of drug trafficking at work in the city.
According to police, they got a tip-off that a woman was trying to sell drugs in Civil Lines area. Police reached the spot and nabbed the woman and seized the drug from her possession.
The woman has been identified as Farzana (39), a resident of Lohakhan.
Police claimed that during interrogation, the accused accepted that she brought the drug from Mumbai to then sell it in Ajmer.
She was in need of money as her husband Razaak has been declared a history-sheeter and was arrested last year with his brother Khurshid.
They were out on bail and then started drug trafficking again. Later this year in January, they were caught by Madhya Pradesh police with drugs and at present, they are both are in Indore Jail.
There are 22 cases of drug trafficking registered against Razaak and Khurshid in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and also in Rajasthan.
Police said that the accused accepted that after her husband and his brother were caught, she took on the charge of drug trafficking and brought Mephedrone from Mumbai in stock and was selling it in small packets, mostly to youngsters.
Police are now working with their counterparts in Mumbai police to share the information received from the accused during interrogation and are probing the larger network at play in Ajmer.
