Anti-narcotics sleuths have arrested a student of a prominent Noida-based private university and two others for smuggling a party drug into the the national capital from Himachal Pradesh.
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.
NCB sleuths said a team of the agency had received a tip-off that the much abused 'Malana cream' was being sent to Delhi and following these leads they nabbed the trio during the exchange.
"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 student admitted during interrogation that he got into this illegal business for getting quick money," the officials said.
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".
