In a daring operation that saw one of its officials jump from the first floor of a building to catch hold of a fleeing drug peddler, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three notorious drug suppliers with a huge quantity of drugs and a cash of Rs 17.5 lakh at Jogeshwari (East) in north Mumbai.
Identifying the three arrested notorious drug peddlers as Sameer Mukhtar Sayyed alias Sam Langda, Zakir Sayyed alias Zakir Takla alias Zakir Chikna and Mohammed Amed Shamsuddin Shaikh, NCB’s Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede said that 1.2 kgs of Charas of commercial quantity, intermediate quantity of Mephedrone and a cash Rs 17.5 lakh.
Acting on a tip-off, the NCB kept a watch on the three near their building at Jogeshwari (East), intercepted the trio and took them into custody. The operation was conducted in the intervening night of July 24 and 25.
An action drama preceded the arrest of three as one of the drug peddlers identified as Zakir jumped from 1st floor of the building they were holed up. Without losing any time, one of the NCB officers jumped from the first floor and caught hold of the fleeing Zakir.
NCB sources said that Sam Langda waS a notorious gangster in the organised drug mafia. “He is a specially-abled person. In the garb of being challenged, he was running his notorious drug trade,” a senior NCB officer said.
Sam Langda is wanted by the NCB in a previous case. In that case, NCB Mumbai seized a total 15.1 kgs of Charas (Hashish) along with Cash Rs. 4.40 lakh and arrested 5 persons. Sam Langda was running a cartel which consisted of various drug peddlers and criminals under his command.
NCB Mumbai had received a lot of complaints from Residents of Jogeshwari regarding drug activities of Sam Langda and his activities involving children in drug trafficking.
Zakir Takla is history-sheeter and was earlier booked 2 NDPS cases in 2010 over seizure of 10 kgs Charas and in 2016 for seizure of 250 grams by Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police.
In the earlier drug haul earlier this year, the NCB Mumbai had seized a total 2.03 Kg Mephedrone along with cash Rs. 1,15,500, huge quantity of foreign currency, two luxury vehicles. It had arrested three persons --Shahrukh Khan alias Shahrukh Bullet, Shadab Farooque Shaikh alias Shadab Batata and Ajaz Khan – in connection with the seizure.