New Delhi, Jan 9 (Reporter) Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday claimed to have busted an international drugs cartel with the arrest of one Iranian national. One kilogram of fine-quality heroin, with an international value of more than Rs. 5 crores were seized, the Police said. The recovered heroin has been smuggled into India from Afghanistan via Iran, it said. The arrested accused was identified as Mohsen Vahedi (29), an Iranian national. The Police said, “Narcotics drug supplier was arrested from Sunroof Hotel, Malviya Nagar, Delhi, on January 1, with one kg of fine-quality heroin valued at more than 5 crores in the international market.” Due to forthcoming Republic Day Celebrations, the Special Cell/Southern Range staff has intensified check in the hotels, guest houses etc. in the South Delhi area. During this exercise, SI Ram Kumar of Special Cell/SR while checking the records of Iranian nationals residing in the hotel Sunroof Residency, Hauz Rani, Malviya Nagar, Delhi, got suspicious of his activities. Kumar conducted a thorough search of his belongings, and subsequently recovered 1 kg of fine-quality heroin from him, the police said. The accused further disclosed that he was part of a drug supply racket in Delhi/NCR. Subsequently, a case under the provisions of the NDPS Act was registered at PS Special Cell against the accused in this regard. During the interrogation of the arrested drug supplier, it was revealed that he was a member of an international narcotic drug cartel and would procure heroin from the Afghanistan-based drug lord Habeeb. He further divulged that the recovered heroin was smuggled into India from Afghanistan via Iran. He asserted that the heroin manufactured and smuggled from Afghanistan is of much superior quality and therefore has high demand internationally in comparison to the heroin manufactured from opium in legalised cultivated areas in India. Efforts are afoot to identify the forward and backward linkages of this narcotic drug network and to arrest other members of this syndicate, the Police said...////...