In a shocking incident, a Commonwealth youth games silver medallist was arrested along with two other persons for holding over 25 kg of party drug 'Meow-Meow'. The drugs were worth of Rs 50 crore. All the three were arrested from New Delhi railway station.

"The drug recovered from the arrested accused had originated from African countries and was brought to Mumbai through shipments", a senior police official said.

"The accused had brought it to Delhi from where it was to be sent to UAE, UK, USA, Malaysia and other Middle-East countries", said Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell).

"The trio Amandeep Singh, 29, Harpreet Singh, 30, and Hanish Sarpal, 36, was arrested on February 15 by a Special Cell team that was tracking their movement based on specific inputs", Yadav said.

"Accused Harpreet Singh is a former international athlete who had won the silver medal for India at Commonwealth Youth Games, 2004, held in Australia. He also won the bronze medal in SAF Games, 2006, held in Colombo," he said.

The Special Cell sleuths got a tip off on February 11 that Amandeep along with Harpreet would travel to Mumbai to collect the drug mephedrone (Meow Meow). After taking the packet they planned to come back to Delhi by train.

"Further, the team learnt that the duo will board Dadar-Amritsar train and reach Delhi in the wee hours of February 15. A trap was laid and all the entry and exit points of New Delhi station were covered. Around 6.15 AM, the cops spotted Amandeep and Harpreet near a parking and caught them after a short chase", the officer said.

"The third member of the syndicate, Hanish, was arrested on the insistence of accused Amandeep and Harpreet and 650 gms of the drug was recovered from his possession", he said.

"During the interrogation of the accused it emerged that Kailash Rajput, presently residing in Dubai and Kishan, living in Uttar Pradesh, are kingpins of the syndicate", the DCP said.

Kishan has many associates working in Mumbai. Once, the consignment arrives in Mumbai, Kishan and Kailash Rajput talk to Delhi-Mumbai based agents including Amandeep, Hanish and Harpreet, to get the drug consignment and send it to other countries.

"Harpreet allegedly around 2006, took part in some national athletic championships but was debarred from the events as he was detected "positive" in the dope test. He had to quit games as during the trial of Commonwealth Games 2010, he had a permanent injury", said the officer.

"After quitting games, he started a business of property dealing but due to slump in the property business in 2013-14 he was lured into drug trafficking through Amandeep," he said.

Police with the help of electronic surveillance and secure sources discovered that these days Mephedrone is usually being used by the youngsters, especially in "Rave parties" in Mumbai, Delhi and other metro cities of the country.

This dangerous drug is considered to be the "appropriate substitute" of cocaine.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police last year in July had nabbed nine drug traffickers seizing 14 kg of Mephedrone from them.

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BY M. DIVYA SRI