Three arrested with heroin worth Rs.12 crore

MEERUT - Three drug peddlers have been arrested with heroin worth Rs.12 crore, police said Tuesday.

“The three men in their mid-20s were nabbed Tuesday from the bus stand in the Sadar area,” Nagesh Kumar, a police spokesman, told reporters here.

“All the three are residents of Uttar Pradesh, and worked for a drugs racket operating form Nepal,” he added.

The three have confessed that they were going to New Delhi to hand over the consignment to their clients there, police said.