MOHALI: The Mohali police have arrested three Nepali nationals, including a 14-year-old boy, in two separate cases in one week’s time.
In the most recent case, the cops nabbed two women and recovered 11 kg of opium from them.
The accused have been identified as Lakshmi and Lela Budha. They were on their way to Shimla to deliver opium. The cops claimed that the women were caught on Tuesday when the police were patrolling in Lalru.
SP Rural Ravjot Kaur Grewal said, “The women were caught on suspicion and when checked, Lela had 5kg opium in her bag, while the other one had 6 kg opium.
During the course of interrogation, they revealed that they had come to India for harvesting of ‘guchhi’ mushrooms in Himachal. They met a man, who is also from Nepal, at the bus stand in Delhi.
He asked them to deliver one of his parcels in Shimla, for which they would be paid.” Grewal further added that the women were lured in greed of money and they accepted the offer but were caught by the cops.
However, in a similar case, the cops arrested a 14-year-old boy, a native of Nepal, on March 19 and recovered 2kg of opium.
The cops claimed that the boy met a man named Sunil, who is running an international drug trafficking network from Nepal. According to information, the boy’s parents were living separately for last over eight years and he lost his father last year.
“He came to know that his mother was living in Shimla and he wanted to meet her,” said the cops. “Sunil fooled the boy by saying that he knows his mother in Shimla and he would help him meet her.
He gave him a parcel of opium weighing 2 kg and directed him to deliver it to a man in Shimla, who would take him to his mother. But he was caught by the police,” said a cop. The police said they are investigating all the angles in these cases.
(with inputs from Agencies)
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