NEW DELHI, Feb 17:
A Delhi court today extended till March 3 the judicial custody of a Jammu and Kashmir Police constable and two others, arrested for their alleged roles in narcotics trade through which money was used to fund banned terror outfit Hizbul-Mujahideen.
Khurshid Alam, a constable of JK Police, B Ganesh and M Senthil, residents of Tamil Nadu, were produced before Special Judge Anu Grover Baliga after expiry of their judicial custody and the court extended it after special cell of Delhi Police said that probe into the case was going on.
The three accused were arrested on January 19 by special cell, which had told the court that they were part of a narcotics business and a total of 10 kgs of high grade heroin worth approximately Rs 35 crore in the international market was recovered from their possession.
The police had also said that as per their probe, the kingpin of this syndicate is a Kuwait-based person namely ‘Ali’, whose another trafficking module was busted by it in December last year with recovery of 47 kgs heroin and two kgs crack cocaine.
The police had also claimed Fayyaz, an area commander of Hizbul-Mujahideen, now based in Abottabad in Pakistan, has been sending consignments of drugs through his conduits who were active in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
It had said that money obtained from narcotics business was being sent to Fayyaz for terror activities of the banned outfit. (PTI)
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