PSI GUDLAR SUPPLIED DUDU’S SISTER WITH DRUGS FOR GIFTS FROM ISRAEL

PANJIM: Alleged notorious Israeli drug dealer David Driham alias Dudu's sister, who had done a sting operation on former anti- narcotics cell (ANC) police sub-inspector (PSI) Sunil Gudlar, has revealed to the crime branch that the PSI supplied her drugs twice in exchange for gifts from Israel.

In her statement to the crime branch on Saturday, Ayala Driham, said that in November 2010 she had contacted PSI Gudlar and asked him to give charas in return for the gifts that she had brought for him from Israel. ''PSI Gudlar handed over to me some 'black substance','' she said in her statement to the Crime branch and said the substance was tested in a laboratory in Israel and confirmed that it was indeed charas.

She further said that later they again invited PSI Gudlar to the house of Dudu's girlfriend and asked him to get some 'charas'. ''The plan was to hand over some items I had brought from Israel to him and then during the course of the conversation ask for the 'charas'. ... when I asked him about it, PSI Gudlar put his hand into his pocket and removed the polythene packet containing the black substance similar to what he had given me on the earlier occasion. I told him it was better stuff than what was given earlier, and then passed it on to Dudu's girlfriend who held it in her hand for a little while and then placed in on the table in front of PSI Gudlar.''

Ayala admitted to the Crime branch that she along with Dudu's girlfriend Zarina had done the sting operation on PSI Gudlar, who was in contact with them after Dudu's arrest. The full video-recording has been handed over by Ayala to the Crime branch along with the statement.

Now, the question before Crime branch, which is investigating into the role of PSI Gudlar, who is seen in the video clippings of the spy-camera allegedly selling drugs, demanding bribe and threatening to plant charas on a person if he fails to pay money, is how did Gudlar, who was with the ANC, manage to get the charas?

''We are trying to verify if PSI Gudlar really gave her drugs in exchange for gifts. And if he had given her drugs then where did he get it from. We are also verifying if he was giving away drugs kept in ANC malkhana", said sources in Crime branch.

Incidentally, following the arrest of five policemen, including PI Ashish Shirodkar, formerly attached to the ANC, after Israeli drug dealer Atala claimed on camera that he had survived in the drug business in Goa with the help of the police, the Crime branch had found that 24 kg of charas out of 280 kg seized by the police was found missing from the ANC malkhana, where seized drugs are kept before being disposed off.

The police later told the high court of Bombay at Goa that bags of charas seized by the Anti Narcotic Cell have disappeared because white ants feasted on them.