Two persons have been arrested for allegedly stealing and trying to sell 612 drums of imported Gambier liquid, a cheap alternative to kattha, police said today.
Crime Branch arrested Inder Pal (55) and Vijay (48) from a godown in Bawana industrial area and recovered the 612 stolen drums of the chemical, used for polishing leather and making artificial kattha, they said.
The consignment was imported from Indonesia to Mumbai and was bound for Yamuna Nagar in Haryana.
During interrogation, Inder Pal - a rice trader and scrap dealer in Delhi, and Vijay - owner of a yarn trading unit in Haryana's Panipat, said they got the chemical from one Sarajudin Rahi who used to work in Vijay's unit.
"Rahi had asked him to find a broker to sell the consignment. Vijay contacted Pal, who agreed to sell it in the market. As per the plan, Rahi brought a truck full of chemical canes and offloaded them at Vijay's unit in Panipat," Additional CP (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav said.
The truck was later abandoned at Yamuna Nagar and was seized by the police. After two-three days, the chemical was shifted to Delhi in the godown owned by Pal.
Pal and Vijay were searching for a buyer when the police raided the godown on specific information.
