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About three months before Delhi Police recovered 770 kg of cocaine during two separate raids in the city, the force in July was tipped off about a 100 kg shipment of the narcotic that was delivered to the capital but failed to be able to take delivery as a The inputs they received were “vague and incomplete”, at least two senior special-cell officers associated with the investigation said on Saturday.

On October 1, the special cell raided a godown in Mahipalpur and recovered 562 kg of cocaine, arresting seven people in connection with the case. Later on October 10, the special cell recovered 208 kg of cocaine discreetly packed in namkeen packets from a godown in Ramesh Nagar.

Agents said both drug shipments are linked to the same cartel.

However, in July, the special cell team had already received information about drugs being smuggled into Delhi disguised as namkeen packets.

“Our informant told our team that a large consignment of cocaine would be smuggled into Delhi in sealed packages of a bhujia brand. He, however, could not give us any further information, including the routes the smugglers would use and the modes of transport by which the contraband was supposed to reach Delhi.The Special Cell team tried their best to develop the entries.However, in the absence of concrete details, they could not make one tracking the shipment, not even confirming or denying that the narcotic substance reached Delhi,” said one of the officers quoted earlier.

The second officer said they only received confirmation about the 100kg shipment while questioning three people arrested in early October. Police declined to release their names, saying it would hamper an ongoing investigation.

Of course, the consignment seized in Ramesh Nagar was hidden in packets of ‘chatpata masala’ namkeen – the cocaine that was smuggled into Delhi in July is alleged to have been hidden in packets of bhujia of the same brand.

“As the recovered cocaine was in sealed packets of namkeen mixture, it immediately gave us reason to suspect that the inputs about the July cocaine shipment were correct… This was further confirmed during the interrogation of the three individuals , who were instrumental in the successful handling of the first shipment of cocaine in July,” said the second agent.

Police investigating the case had earlier said the cocaine was smuggled into India by an international drug cartel operated by three overseas-based Indian nationals. One of them is Virender Basoiya, who currently lives in Dubai, while the other two have only been identified by single names – “Gill” in the UK and “Ali” in Dubai, they said.

Police have already issued look-out circulars (LOCs) against these three men, along with three others, including Savinder Singh, who allegedly came to India from London as part of the drug deal but fled the country on October 4 after learning of the repression. on the poster