The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested one more person in connection with its probe against an Indo-Afghan narcotics syndicate and seizure of about 50 kg of heroin from south Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area last week. The latest arrest of an Indian man living in Laxmi Nagar was made on Sunday, the agency said. This is the fifth arrest in the case as two Indian and an equal number of Afghan nationals have been taken into custody in the case earlier by the federal anti-narcotics agency after raids were conducted by it in Shaheen Bagh-Jamia Nagar locality on April 27.
All the accused have been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had on Thursday said it seized about 50 kg of "high-quality" heroin packed in Flipkart and other e-commerce companies' packaging, following raids at a residential premise in the Shaheen Bagh-Jamia Nagar.
Claiming to have busted an Indo-Afghan drug-smuggling racket, the agency had said that cash amounting to Rs 30 lakh was also seized during the operation.Another 47 kg of "suspected" narcotics were also seized from the premises and the NCB has sent the seized substance to a laboratory for testing.