Four persons, including three college students, have been arrested in New Town for alleged possession of heroin, which police said was brought to Kolkata for supply to clients.
A team comprising officers of the Bengal special task force (STF) and Eco Park police station, under the Bidhannagar police commissionerate, arrested the four near the Akanksha crossing, in Action Area II, on Monday night.
An officer of the Bengal STF said the three men were from the western districts of Murshidabad and Birbhum, while the fourth, a woman from Malda district in north Bengal, stayed as a tenant in a flat at Shapoorji Pallonji Housing Complex.
The police identified the men as Shamsuzzoha, Farhan Sheikh and Mohammad Naim, and the woman as Mausumi Khatoon. Shamsuzzoha and Farhan are students of a college in Bangalore and Naim studies at a college in Birbhum district’s Rampurhat.
STF sources said 300 grams of heroin was found on them.
“We are trying to find out whom they were going to supply the heroin. The youths from Bangalore have come to Kolkata recently,” said an officer of the STF.
All four have been booked under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
“A preliminary investigation suggested that they were part of a drugs supply racket active in the city. It is possible to arrest the racketeers only when they are found in possession of some psychotropic substances. Else it is not possible to make any arrest,” the officer said.
City arrests
The special task force of Kolkata police arrested two alleged drug peddlers on EM Bypass, near Beleghata, on Monday afternoon. Officers said 1.99kg of charas was seized from them.
Sheikh Jamir, 31, from the Charu Market area, and Sheikh Sajjad, 46, a resident of an area under Park Street police station, have been booked for unauthorised possession of charas, the police said.
Both were arrested in connection with supply and possession of drugs earlier, too.
