Three alleged drug traffickers, including an Afghan national, were arrested as the National Investigation Agency continued its probe into the seizure of nearly 3,000 kg of heroin at Gujarat’s Mundra port last year, an official said on Thursday.
The case, registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on September 14, 2021, pertains to the operation of the largest international drug trafficking syndicate run by the Dada brothers – Hassan Dad and Hussain Dad – both Afghan nationals. are citizens. NIA is already wanted.
The NIA, which took over the case on October 6, 2021, has filed a chargesheet in the special court in Ahmedabad against 16 people, including six wanted in the case, on March 14. It filed a supplementary charge sheet against nine more accused on August 29.
Afghan national Rah Matullah, residing in Malviya Nagar area of South Delhi, Ishwinder Singh of Panipat, Haryana and Jasbir Singh of Tilak Nagar, Delhi were arrested on Wednesday for their active involvement in smuggling heroin in large consignments hidden in containers. to be done. An NIA spokesperson said talcum stone and bituminous coal from the sea route.
The official said that Matullah, who was specifically included India About 8-10 months ago, he was arrested with 3.9 kg of heroin for handling the narcotics trade network run by the Dada brothers, while searches conducted at the residence of Ishwinder Singh led to the recovery of commercial quantities of heroin.
The NIA said several consignments of heroin, concealed in apparently innocuous consignments of goods such as semi-processed talc stones and bituminous coal, were smuggled into India through various Indian ports including Mundra, Gujarat and Kolkata and further through trucks. was moved from New Delhi.
“The investigation unearthed a vast and extensive network of drug smugglers, international facilitators and importers, distributors and local wholesalers and retailers using conduit, counterfeit or shell companies, from several countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Huge international drug smuggling rackets are operating. and the United Arab Emirates, ”said the spokesperson.
The NIA said the investigation conducted so far revealed that five consignments of heroin-laden items were imported into India between November 2020 and September 2021.
Three such consignments of semi-processed talcum stones eventually reached a godown in Delhi’s Neb Sarai, which was hired by absconding accused Najibullah Khalid in the name of another Afghan national, Noorjahi Abdul Salam, the official said.
The official said that Afghan experts separated the heroin from the consignment hidden in this warehouse and then sent it for distribution in the market through a network of drug suppliers and peddlers.
The NIA said the material concealed through the arrested accused Jasbir Singh and Ishwinder Singh was removed to another godown hired by Shaheen alias “Rock”, an aghan civilian and a key associate of Najibullah. The official said Ishwinder Singh, a renowned drug distributor, was in direct contact with one of the accused Javed from Afghanistan and a key associate of Hasan Dad.
The spokesperson said that on the instructions of Javed, Ishwinder Singh with the connivance of Jasbir Singh fabricated the false documents and rented a godown at village Hamidpur, Delhi, from where the semi-processed talaq was transferred from the Neb Sarai godown for further disposal. was gone, the spokesperson said.
The NIA said that Ishwinder Singh’s continued investigation revealed the presence in Delhi of Matullah, a close aide and aide of Javed, which led to his arrest.
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