Days after two drug peddlers were nabbed with charas worth Rs 1 crore, the Gujarat Anti-Terroristꦕ Squad (ATS) on Thursday nabbed the main accused who had hired them, an official said.
The state ATS arrested Imran Malek (34), a resident of Rahim♛ Nagar, from Narol are𝓀a of the city, the official said.
According to the ATS, Malek had admitted that he, 🌱along with one Nitin Chikne, sell drugs in Mumbai and he had hired the two peddlers to smuggle charas from Ludhiana in Punjabꦏ.
On October 13, Mumbai r꧟esident Fahim Baig and Samir Shaikh, a native of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, were arrested with over 16 kg of charas worth Rs 1 crore near Palanpur in Gujarat's Banaskantha district.
The duo had claimed that Malek had sent them🌌 to Ludhiana to bring a consignment of medicines, the official said.
The consignment, which actually contained c💧haras, was to be delivered to Malek, for which the duo was to supposed to get Rs 50,000, he said.
Pre⛎liminary interrogation of Malek has revealed that he was arrested in 2011 by the Bandra police in Mumbai in a similar case and had been released in 2014.
