Mundra drug haul case: NIA raids multiple locations in Delhi, elsewhere

“Links of the accused Mohammad Hasan Hussain Dad and Mohammad Hasan Dad and other co-conspirators have also emerged with proscribed terror organisations based in Pakistan. The proceeds of drugs trafficking were channelled back to foreign entities through hawala channels at the behest of Pak based terror outfits for use in anti-India activities,” the NIA had said in a statement then.

Hasan Dad and Hussain Dad are promoters of Hasan Hussain Ltd based in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was this company that had sent the consignment, declaring it as semi-processed talc stones. The consignment originated from Kandahar and was sent through Bandar Abbas port in Iran. In India, it was supposed to be received by an Andhra-based firm run by a Chennai-based couple.

“During investigation it was established that the smuggling of narcotics into India was carried out earlier as well by the same set of accused persons. These included the offences registered by DRI Delhi zonal unit wherein 16.105 Kg of Heroin was seized from a warehouse in Delhi; and a case FIR No- 90/2021 PS Garh Shankar dated 01.07.2021 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab wherein 20.250 kg of Heroin was seized. These two offences were also subsumed in the instant case as connected offences,” NIA had said.

According to NIA, the Dads and accused M Sudhakar, DP Vaishali and Rajkumar Perumal of M/s Aashi Trading Company (the Andhra-based firm) along with others had entered into criminal conspiracy to smuggle huge quantities of narcotics to India by concealing in consignments of semi processed talc.

“The consignment sent in September, 2021 was intercepted whereas earlier consignments were received and stored in a warehouse in Delhi for further distribution in Delhi and Punjab,” the NIA had said.

Those chargesheeted by the agency include 10 arrested accused and six absconding. Among the arrested accused Machavaram Sudhakar, his wife DP Vaishali, Rajkumar Perumal and Pradeep Kumar (from Ghaziabad, UP) are from India. Mohammad Khan Akhlaqi, Said Mohammad Hussaini, Fardin Amery, Sobhan Aryanfar, Alokozai Mohammad Khan and Murtaza Hakimi are Afghan nationals,

The six absconding accused who have been chargesheeted include the Dads, Iranian national Javad Najafi and Afghan nationals Najibullah Khan Khalid, Esmat Ullah Honari, and Abdul Hadi Alizada.