A software engineer from Mumbai has been arrested for smuggling cocaine worth over Rs 1 crore, said crime branch officials. Cops said Murtaza (42), a resident of Mira Road in Mumbai, used to smuggle cocaine into the capital from Mumbai. "We have arrested him with 15gm of cocaine worth more than Rs 1 crore in the international market. He had come to the city using an Air India flight and was going to deliver the cocaine at certain locations in south Delhi,'' said additional DCP (crime) Bhism Singh. Cops said to avoid being caught, Murtaza often used a Mumbai-Kolkata-Delhi air route to smuggle drugs into the city.
Cops said he started smuggling drugs after a close relative Naved initiated him into the trade. "The accused completed his engineering from Dubai and returned to Mumbai in 2006.
21/06/12 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India
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