From concealing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) by soaking it on a stamp paper to hiding heroin inside the cavities of shoes, drug traffickers are inventing new ways to smuggle in drugs.
“Cocaine and heroin are two big money spinners. Traffickers have come up with many new, innovative ways to smuggle drugs,” said a senior police officer with the Crime Branch.
The accused arrested by the Crime Branch on Tuesday used to conceal heroin inside shoes and bags. The Delhi Government Crime Branch has seized 123.5 kg of the narcotic from different sources so far this year.
Talking about the drug seizure, the police officer said: “Heroin sold on the streets of Delhi by the peddlers and dealers is mostly produced in certain regions of Madhya Pradesh that include Mandsaur and Bhawani Mandi.”
A chemical called acetite anhydride – an essential component in many drugs – converts poppy into heroin. For the locally manufactured heroin available on Delhi streets, the poppies are siphoned off from the authorised poppy cultivation belt in the border of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. And the acetite anhydride is siphoned off basically from the pharmaceutical industry spread across the nation, he added.
As for cocaine, organised gangs operating on a large scale dominate the cocaine trade. Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America, particularly in Columbia, Bolivia, Peru and smuggled into the United States and Europe.
