Gurugram, Sep 22 || Gurugram Police have arrested eight criminals in two different cases with illegal drugs and liquor, police said on Sunday.
The police arrested two accused along with Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is one kind of drug. The estimated value of the drug is around Rs 10 lakh in the market.
According to the police, they received a complaint from Bhondsi police against an accused, Deepak Yadav, who is lodged in Bhondsi jail, his mother had visited the Bhondsi jail to supply him with clothes but while checking the jail staff recovered illegal drugs from her possession. The jail staff then handed her over to the Bhondsi police station.
"The recovered illegal drug was sent to RFSL Bhondsi for checking, and later, it was found to be a drug. Based on a report, a case under relevant sections of the NDPS Act was registered against her at the Bhondsi police station," Sandeep Kumar, spokesperson of the Gurugram Police, said.
Thereafter, police took Deepak Yadav on a production warrant on Saturday from jail and on his disclosure, police recovered a huge quantity of illegal drugs, estimated to cost Rs 10 lakh, from village Bakkarwal in Delhi and nabbed two accused, identified as Praveen and Dharmender, a resident of Bakkarwal village.
"The duo accused work as work as physicians and give medicines to induce hunger. The recovered narcotics also induce hunger, the two accused also provide drugs," he said.
In the second incident, the Gurugram Police arrested six persons from different locations of the city for allegedly selling and illegal possession of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) and seized 30 boxes of wine and several bottles from them, an official said on Sunday.