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These women take Srinagar-Delhi-Mumbai trip with kids... and 44 kg hash!

Updated on: 27 August,2016 08:27 AM IST  | 
Asif Rizvi | asif.ali@mid-day.com

Two women would travel from their home in Srinagar to Delhi, then board a train for Mumbai with their children and deliver large consignments of hashish to a Malad peddler

These women take Srinagar-Delhi-Mumbai trip with kids... and 44 kg hash!

Mehbooba and Mehroon Kullu

Busting a gang smuggling high quality hashish in Mumbai, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday arrested three people, including two Kashmiri women and a Malad resident. The agency has discovered that the arrested women used their own children to guise the illegal trade and delivered the drug consignments to the Mumbai receiver inside long distance trains. They never halted in Mumbai for more than two hours.



Smugglers Mehbooba Kullu, Mehroon Kullu and Sajjad Ali Shaikh alias Pappu were arrested from Borivli railway station. Mehbooba and Mehroon had arrived from Delhi in the Paschim Express with a box containing 43.7 kg of hashish. The drugs, packed in a carton, were to be received by Sajjad inside the train. But, acting on a tip off, NCB sleuths laid a trap at the station and nabbed the trio.


Two children were also found along with the women. When questioned by the NCB officials, Mehbooba and Mehroon stated that the kids, both aged below 12, were theirs and had travelled with them. However, the officials have learned that the children were brought along so that it looked like a family was travelling and no suspicions were cast on them, the NCB said. The women were paid through online transactions.

“When investigations in previous cases were going on, it was found that heavy consignments were coming to Mumbai from Kashmir. While working on the specific information [of these consignments] a trap was laid and the arrests were made. The arrested Mumbai receiver would take the consignments inside the train and later distributed it in parts to the peddlers,” said Sanjay Jha, Zonal Director, NCB.

NCB had made an arrest in the hashish trade in June and found the Kashmir connection while investigating the same. “On June 19, we arrested three people with 6 kg of hashish. The trio had travelled through a similar route as the arrested women. However, investigations revealed even that even when there was unrest in Kashmir following the death of militant Burhan Wani, they managed to supply the drugs to the city, but in small amounts; only 6 kg were seized. Each 10 grams is sold for Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 in the market,” said an official.

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