NCB busts Mumbai Cocaine nexus; arrests 17 in 2795 kg cannabis seizure from UP, Bihar

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is actively chasing drug nexus be it in Sushant Singh Rajput case or or drug peddling and supplies across country, has busted a high-profile cocaine trafficking syndicate operating out of Mumbai.

official twitter handle of NCB stated: "a probe that started with seizure of cocaine in Delhi led to arrest of a drug peddler in Mumbai." NCB also said that it intercepted a parcel containing drugs arriving from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. 

Hours later, NCB posted ar huge development of arrest of 17 people allegedly connected to massive quantity of 2,795 kgs of cannabis that was seized from different places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. "In one of operations, contraband was concealed in an oil tanker," NCB said on Twitter.

"An intensive operation was conducted to check cannabis’ trafficking and a total of 2,795 kgs of drug was seized," Narcotics Control Bureau's Deputy Director (operations) K P S Malhotra had said on Friday in connection to seizure.

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Sushant Singh Rajput investigation

case that was first investigated by Enforcement Directorate (ED) over financial angle and CBI investigating  mysterious death of Sushant Singh, has NCB also involved after ED revealed consumption of drugs linked to actor's death and prime accused Rhea Chakraborty.

Soon after NCB team interrogated several people including prime accused in case of Rhea Chakraborty and her bror Showik. Rhea who earlier denied consuming any sort of drugs has admitted on Saturday that she consumed drugs. Earlier she had claimed that she used to procure drugs for Sushant but never consumed m. It was only after NCB made her realise that procurement and peddling of drugs is a more serious crime than self-consumption. She even admitted that she was tutored by her team to t reveal anything in this regard, however, sources from NCB said she also revealed names of prominent actors. 

Also, NCB is w looking into complaint of Shiromani Akali Dal spokesperson Manjinder Singh Sirsa over Bollywood party video of 2019 and team is w sending video to forensic lab to verify its aunticity.

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