Category: Drugs
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Drugs Worth Rs 2,525 Crore Seized: It Is India’s Operation Samudragupta Vs Haji Salim
On May 13, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Zubair Derakshshandeh, a Pakistani national on the charge that he supplied drugs to several countries as a member of the Haji Salim gang. In a joint operation the NCB and Indian Navy arrested him in the international waters, off the coast of Kochi. Zubair was caught…
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NIA Raids Over 100 Locations To Crackdown On Narco-Terror Nexus
The National Investigation Agency conducted raids and searches across more than a 100 locations in six states in connection with the smuggler-gangster nexus case. The agency conducted raids in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. Sources tell OneIndia that the raids are also The raids are important as the narcotics trade is…
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Has Haji Salim Replaced Dawood Ibrahim As The New Drug Lord In Pakistan?
The Indian agencies are keeping a close tab on one Haji Salim alias Haji Ali after his name had cropped in a drug investigation. Investigations have shown that Salim has been the main supplier of drugs to India since the year 2015.A resident of Afghanistan, Salim is settled in Pakistan and runs his empire from…
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Sri Lanka’s top drug lord Kanjipani Imran is in Tamil Nadu and its hardly surprising
The sea route has been the most preferred for the drug cartels operating in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. The proceeds from the drug trade are being used to fund terror and revive the defunct LTTE New Delhi, Jan 03: Tamil Nadu has been placed under a state of very high alert after it was…
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How Tamil Nadu became a paradise for Pakistan drug cartels to send drugs to Sri-Lanka
New Delhi, Dec 26: The nabbing of Khader Mohideen and Ibrahim Saha, two international drug smugglers in Hyderabad has only shown the extent of the problem yet again. While they were nabbed in Hyderabad, the police said that they are resident of Chennai and this once again puts the focus back on the drug menace…
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Smuggling Corridor: From beedis to arms for Naxals, TN ports become abuzz amid Lanka crisis
While the smuggling racket between Sri Lanka and India is nothing new, estimates reveal that it has gone up five-fold in the past couple of months. New Delhi, July 20: The National Investigation Agency today conducted a search at Trichy (Tiruchirappalli) in Tamil Nadu. The searches were carried out at a special camp which lodges foreigners…
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Mundra Port drug seizure: NIA set to unravel larger Afghan plot
New Delhi, Dec 15: The National Investigation Agency has arrested an Afghan national in connection with the Mundra Port drugs seizure case. The NIA had earlier arrested seven persons in connection with the case. The NIA had registered the case following the seizure of 2988.21 Kgs of heroin. During the investigation, the NIA found that…
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Drugs on cruise case: What we know about the NCB’s new probe officer Sanjay Singh
New Delhi, Nov 06: The Narcotics Control Bureau has formed a Special Investigation Team under deputy general (ops) to probe the six cases being investigated by the agency’s Mumbai zonal unit. These also include the drugs on cruise case in which Aryan Khan is an accused. Singh has plenty of experience and is a 1996…
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Mundra Port drug seizure: NIA probing Afghan angle
New Delhi, Oct 12: After taking over the drug seizure case from the Mundra Port in Gujarat, the National Investigation has raided several locations. The NIA is probing an Afghan angle to this case as the drugs originated from that country which was in August taken over by the Taliban. The case relates to seizure…
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The high demand in Bollywood has made Mumbai cocaine capital of India
New Delhi, Oct 05: Bollywood and the drug link is back in the news with the arrest of actor Sharukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan. With the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai probing the case their counterparts in Gujarat are likely to assist in the probe. While the quantity of the seizure may seem small compared to…
Vicky Nanjappa 