ed arrests kin of key accused held in 2021 mundra drug bust case
New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a Delhi resident Baneet Singh Talwar, the brother of a key accused in 2021 drug bust at Mundra port in Gujarat, Harpreet Singh Talwar alias Kabir Talwar, in connection with large scale smuggling of drugs concealed in semi-processed talc in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, the federal agency said on Saturday.
The Mundra port drug bust of around 3,000 kg Afghan heroin worth Rs.21,000 crore, intercepted in September 2021, was one of the biggest consignments ever which came to India via maritime route.
HT had exclusively reported about this bust in 2021.
Harpeet, a clubbing tycoon, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in August 2022 and later charged to take part in Pakistani spy agency ISI-backed conspiracy to smuggle high-quality drugs into India through maritime route. ED said in a statement on Saturday that Baneet Talwar "continued to manage and operate business entities under the beneficial control of Harpreet Singh Talwar even after the latter was arrested in the NIA case". htc...
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