While busting a multi-million United States dollar international drugs racket being run from geographical area, the state police have chanced upon the very fact that sports was being employed as a medium to run the total racket. Not solely that, the drugs-sports nexus conjointly incorporates a definite `Kabootarbaazi’ (illegal immigration) link to that, senior geographical area Police officers aforementioned.
At least four folks of Punjab-origin primarily based in Canada are currently underneath the scanner for serving to out international wrestler-turned-police officer-turned-drugs kingpin Jagdish Bhola in his multi-million drugs network that spread-out from India to Europe, Canada and GB.
Those being investigated in Canada currently are: Dara Singh Mathoda, promoter of the Azadi Kabaddi Club primarily based in Vancouver, former kabaddi player Sarabjit Singh alias Nick primarily based in Delta (British Columbia), Nirankara Singh Dhillon primarily based in Brampton (Ontario), and Harbans Sidhu primarily based in Toronto.
Mathoda wont to annually organise a cash-rich kabaddi tournament in his village close to Phagwara city, a hundred and fifty klick from here. Last year, the primary prize for the winner was a Rs.10-lakh SUV.
People concerned within the racket from GB and Kingdom of The Netherlands are being probed, Patiala district police captain H.S. Mann told .
The names of foreign nationals from China, Vietnam and different countries have conjointly patterned throughout interrogation of these inactive, as well as Bhola, Mann said.
“The info was shared with the Police Liaison Officer within the Canadian High Commission, New Delhi, by the geographical area Police in a very high-level meeting presided over by geographical area extra Director General of Police, Intelligence, Hardeep Singh Dhillon. Particulars of recipients in Britain and Kingdom of The Netherlands have conjointly been collected,” Mann aforementioned.
The Patiala police half-tracked down Bhola and his four associates close to the Haryana-Delhi border and inactive them with artificial medication value over Rs.18 large integer weekday.
Bhola was on the radio detection and ranging of the state police ever since they busted a Rs.700-crore artificial medication racket March this year and inactive over twenty five folks, as well as 2 Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) of geographical area origin.
Bhola, associate Arjuna Award (highest sport award within the country given by the government) winner in 1997, was pink-slipped as deputy superintendent of police (DSP) by geographical area Police when he got concerned within the drugs trade.
Mann aforementioned Bhola and his gang were able to import over three hundred weight unit of artificial drugs like Ice (M-amphetamine) and different medication like diacetylmorphine by activity these within equipment.
Punjab Police, when sensational Bhola and conducting raids at varied places from wherever he operated, found that his gang was conjointly humoring in `Kabootarbaazi’ (pigeon flight) or ill-gotten immigration of Punjabi youth to the West.
During a raid in Patel Nagar in Indian capital, the police found a visa power tool, cast visa stamps, many passports and different documents that showed that the gang was causing youth to different countries illicitly.
“The power tool was used for affixing pretend visas of foreign countries, as well as the United States, Canada and European countries. Jagdish Bhola was staying in 2 flats in Patel Nagar in hand by one Harmohinder Singh of Phillaur (near Ludhiana), a factor. Harmohinder is presently absconding,” Mann aforementioned.
One of the associates of Bhola, Sarabjit Singh, inactive with him weekday, was a master vehicle criminal who operated in Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Old Delhi and geographical area. He was concerned in different crimes like seizure, robbery and robberies conjointly, Mann said.