Maharajganj Drug Smuggler Youth, Recently Released From Jail, Again Arrested In Gorakhpur By UP STF
The UP STF has arrested a Maharajganj youth from Gorakhpur, who is allegedly associated with a banned international drug-trafficking gang. Read on for details:
Gorakhpur: In a major breakthrough, UP Special Task Force (STF) has busted a banned international drug-trafficking gang by arresting a Maharajganj youth in Gorakhpur. STF has recovered 2700 banned drug-injections from his possession along with his car.
The accused has been identified as Amir Khan s/o Safiq of Village Sukrauli, Thana Sonauli, District Maharajganj. The accused was also arrested earlier in the illegal drug trade and recently came out of Maharajganj jail after being released.
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The STF had received an information that a member of a drug trafficking gang was moving with huge consignment of banned drug-injections in his car Ford Fiesta from Gorakhpur to Nepal. After this information, the STF team laid a trap near Bhagwanpur intersection and nabbed the accused with his car and recovered banned drug consigmment.
During interrogation, the accused told the Police that a person named Lucky, who has a clothes shop in Nautanwa, Maharajganj and Lucky had given him the mobile number of a person. He took the banned drug-injections in Peppeganj from the same person with whom he was now going to the border for their supply in Nepal.
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The police has booked the accused under Section 8/21/23 NDPS Act in Thana Peppeganj, Gorakhpur.