India, Oct. 24 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Baneet Singh Talwar (son of the late Harminder Singh) on Friday under the PMLA, 2002. The ED produced him that same day before the Special Judge (PMLA) at the Tis Hazari Courts, West District, New Delhi, who remanded him to ED custody for five days. The arrest is in the context of a major narcotics smuggling racket which utilised semi-processed talc as a means of concealment, with multiple seizures in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana.

The ED's probe is based on an FIR registered by the NIA under the UAPA, 1967; the NDPS Act, 1985; and the IPC, 1860, against Harpreet Singh Talwar and others. The NIA has filed six chargesheets in the case, charging the various accused with conspiracy wit...