India, May 22 -- A special court under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has convicted five people for possession of drugs in a 2021 case that had grabbed national headlines, with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) alleging the accused were part of a Dawood Ibrahim-linked synthetic drug trafficking syndicate operating across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Bhiwandi.

Special Judge GT Pawar on Tuesday upheld some parts of the NCB's case relating to recoveries from the accused while rejecting claims of larger recoveries for not being backed by forensic reports. He acquitted five other accused in the case, and the order did not make any references to alleged connections of the accused with a Dawood Ibrahim-linked syndicate. ...