Overview
- Enforcement Directorate investigators filed a money-laundering chargesheet naming 18 accused in the 2019 Attari heroin case, including Pakistani and Afghan nationals, and described a network that used hawala transfers and layered bank deposits to mask proceeds.
- Punjab counter-intelligence teams reported two major heroin hauls in Amritsar, first recovering 5 kg from two suspects linked by police to a Pakistan-based smuggler and a foreign handler, then seizing 7 kg from two others in a separate stop.
- Thane’s Anti-Narcotics Cell arrested three people and seized 2.62 kg of mephedrone, which police say was being delivered to a buyer in the city, with the probe now focused on tracing the supplier and intended customer.
- Rajasthan police under Operation Sankalp seized 979.02 grams of MDMA hidden in a bag of chillies in Nagaur and arrested one suspect, with a second person named by officers as absconding.
- Elsewhere, the NCB in Jammu seized 7.619 kg of charas and made two arrests, while police in Karnataka and Jammu & Kashmir reported additional MDMA, ganja, heroin and charas recoveries, and the UP STF detained two men wanted in a Palghar trafficking case.