Nagpur: Police pursued suspects wanted in a drug-trafficking case in Kamthi in a dramatic chase early Thursday morning. A Tata Harrier being used by the suspects while attempting to flee after spotting the police crashed into a barricade at a metro railway construction site on the Dragon Palace Temple Road and overturned. Police subsequently took all three occupants into custody. The operation was carried out at around 5.40 a.m.
The Anti-Narcotics Squad of New Kamptee police received confidential information through Senior Police Inspector Nitin Dhansing Rathod that Mohammed Shariq Mohammed Raziq, wanted in a drug-trafficking case registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, was in the Yashodhara Nagar area with two associates in a Tata Harrier. The police team laid a trap accordingly.
When the three suspects were travelling from Yashodhara Nagar towards Kanhan via Ghorpad Road, police signalled them to stop on Dragon Palace Temple Road. However, the suspects did not stop the car and attempted to flee at high speed. During the chase, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a barricade at the metro construction site and overturned.
Those taken into custody were Mohammed Shariq Mohammed Raziq, 33, a resident of Wanjara Layout, Pili River; Abdul Karim Mohammed Mukim, 30, a resident of Hamid Nagar, Pili River; and Ghulam Yashdani Mohammed Rashid Ansari, 26, a resident of Farukh Nagar, Teka Naka, Nagpur.
A case has been registered at New Kamptee police station under Section 281 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act. Further investigation is underway into the three accused persons’ alleged roles in the drug-trafficking case.
