532 kg of heroin haul case, NIA files first supplementary chargesheet

On Wednesday, the NIA filed the charge-sheet here in the special NIA court against one more person. The agency filed charges under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC, and various sections of the NDPS and UAPA Act against “narco-terrorist” Amit Gambhir alias Shoe Mallet alias King India. Gambhir is a resident of Amritsar.

The customs department had seized 532 kg of heroin and 52 kg of mixed narcotics in June last year at Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Amritsar.

The agency said in its chargesheet that the investigation established the involvement of an international drug racket based in Pakistan aswell as in Afghanistan. Investigation also revealed evidence of generation of funds through sale of narcotics smuggled from across the international border for funding terrorist activities in J&K.