{"id":20088,"date":"2025-03-31T17:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/?p=20088"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:07:15","slug":"shah-says-our-relentless-hunt-against-the-drug-trade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/shah-says-our-relentless-hunt-against-the-drug-trade-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah says our relentless hunt against the drug trade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi, Mar 31<br \/>\nUnion Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah said that our relentless hunt against the drug trade continues.<\/p>\n<p>In his post on \u2018X\u2019 platform Home Minister said \u201cIn line with the Modi government\u2019s zero tolerance against drugs, a major narco-network was busted in Delhi-NCR. The NCB and Delhi Police grabbed the gang by its throat and recovered methamphetamine, MDMA, and cocaine worth \u20b927.4 crore and arrested five people. I applaud NCB and Delhi Police for this major breakthrough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Detail of the operation<\/p>\n<p>On receipt of an input about an imminent exchange of high-quality Methamphetamine in Chhatarpur area of Delhi a joint team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Special cell of the Delhi Police mounted surveillance on the suspects leading to interception of a vehicle carrying 5.103 kilograms of High-quality Crystal Methamphetamine valued at Rs. 10.2 crore (appx.). Five occupants of the vehicle including four African Nationals belonging to influential family of Nigeria have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Sustained on-the-spot, interrogation and technical backtracking revealed that this contraband was sourced from an African Kitchen in the Tilak Nagar area of West Delhi. Search at this kitchen led to recovery of 1.156 kilograms Crystal Methamphetamine, 4.142 kilograms Afghan Heroine and 5.776 kilograms MDMA (Ecstasy pills) valued at Rs 16.4 crore (appx.). Further, a follow-up search at a rented apartment at Greater Noida led to a recovery of 389 grams of Afghan Heroin and 26 grams of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation revealed about involvement of this syndicate in facilitating African Youth peddling drugs and narcotics, in getting student visas for study at major private universities of National Capital Region (NCR) as well as Punjab. For some of the students, the visa was only a cover for their stay in India where as they were involved in supplying drugs and Crypto conversions. Further, investigations to identify the backward and forward linkages of this drug syndicate is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure exemplifies the NCB\u2019s commitment to successfully dismantle drug networks. To fight against drug trafficking, NCB seeks support of the citizens. Any person can share information related to sale of narcotics by calling on MANAS- National Narcotics Helpline Toll Free Number-1933.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi, Mar 31 Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah said that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest","category-national"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shah says our relentless hunt against the drug trade continues - Asian News Service | English Language | Latest News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/shah-says-our-relentless-hunt-against-the-drug-trade-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shah says our relentless hunt against the drug trade continues - 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