Investigations into the angle of drugs in the death of film actor Sushant Singh Rajput has led the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to large drug organizations and entities in Amritsar and Pakistan supplying cocaine and other hard drugs to Mumbai and Bollywood.
While the NCB is working to trace the backlash from consumer to street vendor and supplier to those who control the trade, the emerging image is one that threatens to shake Bollywood with A-listers past and present and others. that appear on the agency’s radar.
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“We have a clear idea of who is involved in the Bollywood drug scene and (who are) the Mumbai suppliers. The evidence is being collected before users of hard drugs, including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, and their suppliers are charged, ”said a senior OCN official who is familiar with the Sushant investigations. Singh Rajput. The official spoke about the conduct of which he is not identified.
While NCB is expected to convene a key Amritsar link that is critical to the investigation this week, the agency has sought the help of drug enforcement agencies in the US, UK, Canada and Australia to discover suppliers. of cocaine to Mumbai. According to information shared by partner agencies, at least 1,200 kilograms of cocaine landed in India in 2018, and 300 kilograms landed in Mumbai alone. The number was discovered by a detailed investigation into a seizure of 55 kg of cocaine in Australia in June 2019; the same organization was behind both. NCB has already registered a case based on the Australian report.
According to OCN officials, most of the cocaine reaches India via the Colombia-Brazil-Mozambique route, while other African destinations and the Dubai area are sometimes used as an alternative route. Since India is the largest producer of potassium permanganate, which is used in the processing of cocaine, some organizations even planned to establish a cocaine processing unit in the country, these officials added.
Given that India consumes almost a ton of heroin every day, partner agencies have also alerted the OCN to the possibility of an Afghan heroin processing unit in India arriving via Punjab (from Pakistan) or by road. sea from Gujarat. The deep state of Pakistan has always used drug money to finance terrorism.
While NCB is conducting an intensive investigation into the drugs angle in the Sushant Singh Rajput case, the matter must be handled carefully, the NCB official cited in the first instance said, with names of drug dealers linked to politicians from Maharashtra and companies that manage film actors. and actresses who also enter under the scanner.
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