Overview
- Crime Branch teams and Telangana’s anti-narcotics unit carried out coordinated pre-dawn raids on November 27 at 20 locations in Delhi, with follow-up actions in Noida, Gwalior and Visakhapatnam.
- Officers reported seizing narcotics valued at about Rs 12 crore and arresting 10 core operatives, with separate police tallies from Telangana noting earlier seizures worth roughly Rs 3.5 crore.
- Named arrests included Zainab Kyobutungi in Mohan Garden, Bekki in Sant Garh, Frank in Chander Vihar and Jean Ahmad, alongside Indian facilitators Badruddin, Zafar and Sama Umar.
- Investigators said the network hid drugs in courier parcels and funneled payments through mule accounts, identifying at least 59 such accounts and freezing over 100 bank accounts linked to the cartel.
- Thirty foreign nationals without valid papers were detained for deportation proceedings, as officers said the probe continues into visa misuse, courier routes and financial links tied to the syndicate.