BOMBAY: The drug intelligence officers were in for a shock when the person who had walked into their trap was an immaculately dressed military police (CMP) personnel in uniform.
Lance Naik Sureshrao Gyanrao connected to CMP as a dispatch rider had passed a word in the city’s nether world that he was seeking a prospective buyer for high-quality Himalayan hashish.
The drug intelligence agents unaware as to the identity of the person contacted the Gyanraos main conduit. A deal was fixed and a pray and bust operational strategy was adopted.
Enquiries revealed that Gyanrao fixed up the price of Rs 23000 per kg of hashish the drug intelligence agent agreed and a meeting point was arranged at Sion.
At around 5:15 p.m. the officers of city police narcotics cell received a jolt when Lance Naik Gyanrao came zooming in his CMP motorbike near Ramdeo Hotel Sion. The intelligence agent recognized him and the officers surrounded him and took him into custody in front of hundreds of bystanders who were shocked to see a uniformed man being handcuffed by plainclothes men. Gyanrao was frisked and eight kilos of hashish was found on his person.
Gyanrao had procured hashish: from Nepal syndicates He had recently been to Bihar and there he came in touch with the drug mafia
Though no one knows the total amount which he had procured and as to who had exactly supplied him with the money to buy the contraband the discovery of a CPM personnel being involved in drug-trafficking has sent shock waves in the military police
City police officials were tightlipped about the whole case and so were the military police officials
Article extracted from this publication >> June 12, 1992
