Ashish Kumar Shailesh Mehta and Shivani Mehta, involved in a Rs 300 crore drug distribution racket, vanished with Rs 174 crore after police started probing them
Laxmi Singh, the police commissioner for Gautam Buddh Nagar, stated that after months of intelligence gathering, a tip-off was received on Wednesday, leading to the raids. Singh also called the raids the biggest-ever drug bust in Uttar Pradesh.
NIA conducted searches at more than 100 locations in six states of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.
The NCB described it as the largest-ever methamphetamine seizure in the country as part of "Operation Samudragupt", which targets the maritime trafficking of drugs originating from Afghanistan.
CBI has registered a case against IRS officer Sameer Wankhede for demanding Rs 25 crore bribe in exchange of not naming Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the cruise ship drug case
Based on profiling by IGIA Customs/DRI, a Tanzanian nationality passenger who arrived from Addis Ababa was followed from the deboarding gate, added the statement.