NCB Arrests TV Actor Preetika Chauhan, Seized 99 grams of Marijuana

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested TV actor Preetika Chauhan and another man from Mumbai’s Versova for allegedly possessing marijuana and produced before the court.

The team seized 99 grams of Ganja from Preetika and the man named Faisal.

The NCB has launched a crackdown on the Bollywood-drug nexus case. Earlier today, the agency conducted a raid in Andheri and arrested four persons.

Mumbai a major destination for drugs
According to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Mumbai has emerged as a major destination for drugs.

The NCB has launched anti-drug operations to nab the drug traffickers.

Recently, 1 kg of cocaine, 2 kg of PCP (Phencyclidine), 29.300 kg MDA and 70 Gms of Mephedrone, also known as meow meow, was seized from Mumbai.

In another operation, 56 kg of Hashish was seized at Jammu whose main receiver was arrested from Mumbai.

The NCB is keeping an eye on trade routes and the agency has also informed the Customs Department and other agencies about the latest modus operandi of the smugglers to smuggle drugs from foreign countries concealed in different items.

Busting several such rackets in the last few months, the NCB intercepted several drug consignments concealed in an air compressor machine, in metal piston (spare part), stuffed in tailoring material among several others.

In the last three months, the NCB seized several drug parcels coming from foreign countries.

Darknet, concealed parcels
A parcel sent to India from the US on August 31 from DHL couriers in Delhi was intercepted by the agency following which one person was nabbed from Lucknow.

The parcel concealed in an “air compressor machine” contained 2.7 kg of top quality marijuana from the US.

In February, the NCB arrested a drug trafficker for shipping hundreds of psychotropic drug parcels abroad through the darknet.

Darknet is a hidden internet platform which isn’t visible to search engines or government agencies and can be accessed using Tor browser. This hidden underground platform is used for illegal transactions involving drugs, weapons, fake acurrency, stolen credit card details, forged document, unlicensed medicines and other illicit goods.