National Investigation of India, scrutinizing the the October 2 Burdwan blasts, is looking for a “drug queen” from Kolkata, now reportedly based in Chennai.Gulshan Bibi, who fled to Chennai years ago, still runs the narcotics business, through remote control.
According to NIA sources, Investigators found a relation between Islamic terrorists and Gulshan bibi.However the Chennai Police is clueless about the Drug queen. A senior officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Chennai branch too said no drug smuggler by the name of Gulshan Bibi had figured in their radar so far.
But according to NIA, Gulshan provided shelter to two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JUMB) terrorists, who visited Chennai before May 1 blasts at the Central railway station.Apart from marijuana, hashish and heroin, she was also able to procure drugs from abroad like crack cocaine.
According to sources Gulshan bibi arrested on August 12,in 1993, after a CPM worker protested the presence of a narcotics den in an Urdu medium school in Dakshindari in eastern Kolkata but due to the intervention of a CPM minister she was able to flee.
Terrorists took advantage of her connections with corrupt officials of the NCB and police, and allegedly found safe havens in the country.With money power growing, she could reportedly bribe police in states along the Kolkata-Chennai train route.
When asked to Chennai police, about Gulshan arrest, said an Officer “the local police would assist NIA personnel only in escorting duty and in logistics”.