Narcotics Control Bureau officials said they arrested a 22-year-old youth, a student of a Noida-based private university, red-handed on November 2 when he was receiving the said contraband from a driver and a helper of a tourist bus that plies between Himachal Pradesh and Delhi, in Timarpur area of north Delhi.
A total of 1.5 kg of 'Malana cream', a high quality variety of Hashish, has been seized, they said, adding that the driver and helper are residents of Himachal Pradesh.
"The malana cream variety of drugs is a rage and widely abused narcotic after cocaine in the party circuit of youngsters. The agency has got good leads in this case and it is working on them," they said.
Officials probing the case said they suspect the student was supplying the contraband to other students in his institution and in other educational institutes.
A few friends of the arrested student are under the scanner of the NCB now.
The accused, after interrogation, were produced in a designated court yesterday after which they were sent to judicial custody under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Director (Delhi) Rohit Sharma said the arrest would likely lead to "unravelling a deeper nexus existing between the Hashish suppliers based in Himachal Pradesh and the young student community of Delhi, NCR and other areas".
