Mundra Port Heroin Seizure: NIA filed a charge sheet in the case of 3000 kg heroin recovered at Mundra Port, telling how and from where the drugs had reached.

Mundra Port Heroin Seizure Case: The NIA filed a second supplementary charge sheet on Monday (February 20) in the case related to the seizure of about 3000 kg of heroin at Mundra port in Gujarat. The NIA said that the consignment was sent from Afghanistan via Bandar Abbas, Iran.

The NIA said that it was found that there is an organized criminal conspiracy to smuggle an illegal consignment of heroin from Afghanistan to India through international trade routes. As per the investigation, the proceeds from the sale of heroin were provided to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives to carry out terrorist activities.

What did NIA say in the charge sheet?

The agency said that Harpreet Singh alias Kabir Talwar, owner of popular nightclubs in Delhi including White Club (earlier known as Playboy), Jazba and RSVP, who was arrested in August last year, was involved in smuggling Afghan heroin into India. Went to Dubai to misuse commercial trade routes for smuggling. The agency has said that he was using his companies for smuggling.

The names of these people in the charge sheet

The NIA on Monday filed its charge sheet against 22 individuals and companies, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir-based operative Mohammad Iqbal Awan, Dubai-based Vityesh Kosar alias Raju Dubai and Talwar, before a special court in Ahmedabad.

Heroin consignment was caught in September 2021

The NIA had filed a charge sheet against 16 persons in this case on March 14 last year. After this, on 29 August 2022, the first supplementary charge sheet was filed against 9 of the nine accused. On September 13, 2021, a consignment of 2,988 kg of Afghan heroin was seized at Mundra Port.

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