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A constable of Jammu and Kashmir police and two others, arrested for their alleged roles in the narcotics business money derived from which was used to fund banned terror outfit Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen, were on Monday sent to judicial custody till February 17 by a Delhi court.
Khurshid Alam, a constable of Jammu and Kashmir police, B Ganesh and M Senthil, both residents of Tamil Nadu, were arrested in connection with the case on January 19 by the special cell of the Delhi police and produced before the court after expiry of their police remand.
The police told the court that the accused were not required for further custodial interrogation, after which Special Judge Anu Grover Baliga remanded them to 14-day judicial custody until February 17.
According to the special cell, the accused were part of the narcotics business and a total of 10 kgs of high grade heroin, worth approximately Rs 35 crore in the international market, was recovered from their possession.
The police also said that as per the probe, the kingpin of this syndicate is a Kuwait-based person namely 'Ali' whose another trafficking module was busted by it in December last year with recovery of 47 kgs heroin and two kgs crack cocaine.
The police also claimed Fayyaz, an area commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, now based in Abottabad in Pakistan, has been sending consignments of drugs through his conduits active in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
It said money obtained from narcotics business was being sent to Fayyaz for terror activities of the banned outfit.