Wednesday | May 28 2025 | 09:01:03 PM
New Delhi, August 30
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed chargehseet in the Mundra port drug seizure case against nine people, including three Afghan nationals.
The NIA has chargesheeted Sarabjit Singh alias Setthi from Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Balwinder Singh and Jasvir Singh from Amritsar (Punjab), Jannat Gul Kaker, Shami Ullah and Mohammad Lal Kaker from Kanduz (Afghanistan), Mujahid Shinwari from Linghara (Afghanistan) and Imtiaz Ahmed and Imran Ahmed from Rampur in UP.
According to the NIA, the accused are members of an international drug smuggling network involved in trafficking of heroin from Afghanistan to India for distribution in Punjab, Delhi, Gujarat, UP and other states of India.
On August 25, NIA had arrested the owner of a pub at Delhi’s Samrat Hotel along with one other person in connection with its probe into the 3,000 kg heroin haul at Mundra port in September last year. The consignment was said to be worth over Rs 21,000 crore.
The arrested accused have been identified as Harpreet Singh Talwar alias Kabir Talwar and Prince Sharma, both residents of the national capital.
The NIA is further investigating the case.
