Pak cartel sending drugs into India via seas, says NCB

NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has prepared a draft charge sheet in the case of 2,500 kg of methamphetamine seized from a ship in the Indian Ocean, in which they have detailed how a cartel in Pakistan is sending drugs into India through the seas, officials aware of the matter said

- Prawesh Lama

Identifying Pakistan-based fugitive Haji Salim as the main culprit, the bureau has attached a statement of Pakistan national Zubair Derakshshandeh, who was arrested with the drugs. In the charge sheet, officials said that Salim runs a drug cartel and has hundreds of people working under him, who work at Makran coast near Iran-Pakistan border. Some work as carriers and are paid between 3-5 lakh, depending on the number of days they have to be in the ocean. Each trip from the point of origin to the handing over of drugs to smaller ships last between 10-21 days, officials said. Derakshshandeh, a resident of Balochistan in Pakistan, was