Officials have seized about 95 kg of the drugs. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in coordination with the Delhi police Special Cell, has busted a methamphetamine manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar, arrested five persons, and seized about 95 kg of the drugs. The laboratory was … Read more
When selling your vehicle, you must transfer the associated insurance as well. This is because motor insurance is tied to the vehicle, not the owner. Failing to transfer the insurance policy can lead to legal issues if any damage involves a third party. While transferring a motor insurance policy, one of the common concerns is … Read more
The Bombay High Court has directed the central government and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to respond to a Mumbai-based journalist’s plea for a CBI investigation against NCB Deputy Director General Gyaneshwar Singh, also noting concerns over the treatment of the complainant and the handling of related issues by officials. The court observed that the complainant … Read more
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Friday said the NCB has asked the state police’s Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) to transfer its “top five cases” to the central agency, and questioned the Union government’s intentions. The Narcotics Control Bureau‘s (NCB) letter to the ANC attributed the decision to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he claimed in … Read more
The Director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has removed IRS officer Sameer Wankhede as the supervisory officer in six cases including those against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan, actor Armaan Kholi and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan. These cases have now been transferred from the Mumbai unit to … Read more
Narcotic Control Bureau zonal director Sameer Wankhede will remain the investigating officer in the drugs-on-ship case until ‘substantial information’ is found against him, NCB deputy director general (northern region) Gyaneshwar Singh has said. A five-member team led by Singh had earlier in the day recorded Wankhede’s statement for four hours during its probe against him … Read more
Maharashtra NCP minister Nawab Malik on Monday claimed that Narcotics Control Bureau’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede used forged documents including his birth certificate. Malik tweeted a photo of the purported certificate, saying “Sameer Dawood Wankhede ka yahan se shuru hua furjiwada. (Sameer Dawood Wankhede’s document forging started from here).” Wankhede, an IRS officer of the … Read more
Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday termed the allegations levelled by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik against NCB‘s zonal director Sameer Wankhede as “baseless” and “mischievous”, and defended the officer saying he has not done anything wrong. Athawale also said the state government should ensure that Wankhede is not harmed and that there is no threat … Read more
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday claimed that central agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau, were being misused to target the opposition parties in Maharashtra. Care is being taken to ensure political opponents are “defamed” using the central agencies, Pawar, whose party shares power with the … Read more
The anti-narcotics cell of the state government has made comparatively bigger seizures, said NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, adding that this makes one thing clear: the state agencies are doing an honest and straight forward job, while the NCB is doing high profile arrests just to show the Centre that it is doing some thing. “I … Read more