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Business Standard
6 days ago
- Politics
- Business Standard
SC grants interim protection to former SIB chief in phone tapping case
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection from coercive action to former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case. A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma directed Rao to appear before the investigation officer, and said his passport be made available to him. Rao, the key accused in the phone-tapping case, is suspected to be in the US. A Red Corner Notice was issued against him and his passport was revoked, a police official said earlier. The top court also directed Rao to give an undertaking that he would return to India within three days after the receipt of his passport. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Sidharth Luthra vehemently opposed the plea filed by Rao seeking anticipatory bail. The matter is posted for hearing on August 5. Rao has moved the top court challenging an order of the Telangana High Court which dismissed his plea seeking anticipatory bail. On May 22, a Hyderabad court has issued a proclamation order against Rao in the phone-tapping case. According to the order, Rao may be declared a "proclaimed offender" if he does not appear before the court by June 20. If a person is declared a proclaimed offender, the court can order attachment of properties of the accused. A suspended DSP of SIB was among four police officials who were arrested by Hyderabad Police since March 2024, for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone-tapping during the previous BRS regime. They were subsequently granted bail. The accused are part of the alleged conspiracy in which they "misused" the resources of SIB for political purposes by putting citizens from different walks of life under surveillance, police had said. Those named as accused in the case along with others had allegedly developed profiles of several persons unauthorisedly and were accused of monitoring them clandestinely and illegally in SIB and using them in a partisan manner to favour a political party at the behest of some persons and also conspiracy in destroying the records to cause disappearance of evidence of their crimes, police earlier said.
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Phone-tapping case: SC grants interim protection from coercive action to former SIB chief
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection from coercive action to former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case. A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma directed Rao to appear before the investigation officer, and said his passport be made available to him. Rao, the key accused in the phone-tapping case, is suspected to be in the US. A Red Corner Notice was issued against him and his passport was revoked, a police official said earlier. The top court also directed Rao to give an undertaking that he would return to India within three days after the receipt of his passport. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Sidharth Luthra vehemently opposed the plea filed by Rao seeking anticipatory bail. The matter is posted for hearing on August 5. Rao has moved the top court challenging an order of the Telangana High Court which dismissed his plea seeking anticipatory bail. On May 22, a Hyderabad court has issued a proclamation order against Rao in the phone-tapping case. According to the order, Rao may be declared a "proclaimed offender" if he does not appear before the court by June 20. If a person is declared a proclaimed offender, the court can order attachment of properties of the accused. A suspended DSP of SIB was among four police officials who were arrested by Hyderabad Police since March 2024, for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone-tapping during the previous BRS regime. They were subsequently granted bail. The accused are part of the alleged conspiracy in which they "misused" the resources of SIB for political purposes by putting citizens from different walks of life under surveillance, police had said. Those named as accused in the case along with others had allegedly developed profiles of several persons unauthorisedly and were accused of monitoring them clandestinely and illegally in SIB and using them in a partisan manner to favour a political party at the behest of some persons and also conspiracy in destroying the records to cause disappearance of evidence of their crimes, police earlier said.
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Drug kingpin Navin Chichkar deported from Malaysia
MUMBAI: Navin Chichkar, the alleged kingpin of a drug trafficking syndicate operating from Malaysia, has been deported from Malaysia and is now in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Mumbai. He was recently deported in an operation involving several authorities, including Interpol and the Central Bureau of Investigation. Since January, the NCB has seized from alleged members of the syndicate 11.7 kg of cocaine and 10.4 kg of cannabis and cannabis gummies. Based on an NCB request, Interpol recently issued a Red Corner Notice against Chichkar, which led to his deportation to India. Chichkar first came under the NCB scanner in 2021 in connection with a case of LSD trafficking but he was absconding. He later surfaced in Thailand and was recently located in Malaysia, where he was detained for deportation. A city court on Tuesday remanded Chichkar to the custody of the NCB. Chichkar has a post-graduate degree in psychology from the United Kingdom, according to agency sources. Last month, his father, a local builder, died by suicide in Navi Mumbai. The NCB resumed the hunt for the drug trafficker with the seizure of 200 grams of cocaine concealed in a projector being shipped by air through a private courier to Australia on January 21, agency sources said. Following a bottom–to-top approach during the investigation, the NCB team seized more narcotics in a subsequent operation. This included 11.54 kg of cocaine, 4.9 kg of cannabis and 5.5 kg of cannabis gummies allegedly from the home of a syndicate member in Navi Mumbai, the sources said. The NCB's probe revealed the involvement of the syndicate, which trafficked cocaine from the United States to India, and its further distribution within and outside India, the sources added. The probe revealed the involvement of clearing house agents and hawala operators. So far, the NCB has arrested eight individuals linked to the syndicate. The syndicate was active for at least a year and multiple consignments of cocaine via air cargo were allegedly received in Mumbai during this time, the sources said. 'Chichkar's interrogation is likely to reveal more details of his operations including the source of drugs in the US,' a NCB source said. 'Financial investigation in the case has already led to identification of assets including properties and bank accounts in Thailand. Efforts are underway for their attachment,' the NCB source added. In a separate case, earlier this month, the NCB had secured the deportation of an accused from the United Arab Emirates, who was involved in a drug trafficking case in Bengaluru.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Time of India
Trafficking accused arrested, used fake docus for passport
Mumbai: A 49-year-old agent, who was wanted for three years in connection with a case of human trafficking and facilitating illegal immigration to the US, has been found involved in a fresh case of passport-related misrepresentation. Zakir Shaikh, a Goregaon resident, was held by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) of the Gujarat Police recently. Police said Shaikh presented forged documentation before the Regional Passport Office, Malad East, to obtain passports under a different identity. In Dec 2022, the SMC had registered an FIR at Ahmedabad's Sola High Court Police station against 18 people, including Shaikh, for conspiring among themselves and with others "to commit large scale passport fraud and human trafficking for financial gains between 2015 and 2022." These 18 accused are based out of Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat, and one of them lives in New Jersey, US. Their targets were people wanting to enter the US illegally through the US-Mexico border. The accused either contacted such people directly or through intermediaries. Using fake or forged documentation, they applied for visas of foreign countries for their targets. The SMC investigation has shown that they facilitated illegal immigration to the US on the basis of these documents, charging Rs 60 lakh to 70 lakh for individuals, Rs 1 crore to Rs 1.25 crore for couples, and Rs 21.75 crore in cases involving children. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 5 Books Warren Buffett Wants You to Read In 2025 Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo Police said Shaikh applied to the Regional Passport Office at Malad using a false identity-- Sait Sameer Kareem. A different place of birth, date of birth and mother's name was mentioned in this application. Proofs, such as Aadhaar card, driving licence and Pan card were provided to support the false identity. The application also claimed that he had studied up to class X when he had never actually been to school. Shaikh used the passport to flee from India, despite a Look Out Circular (LOC) being issued against him. Initially, he travelled to the UAE. The interpol issued a Red Corner Notice against him. Subsequently, he re-entered India through the Indo-Nepal Border. A fresh FIR was registered against him at the Dindoshi police station on May 25 in connection with the passport-related misrepresentation. Police said Shaikh has passport-related offences registered against him in Delhi as well.
India Today
6 days ago
- India Today
Kingpin of global drug trafficking racket extradited to India from Malaysia
In a major breakthrough for Indian agencies, the Narcotics Control Bureau has secured the extradition of Navin Gurunath Chinchkar, a kingpin behind the transnational drug trafficking syndicate from Malaysia, with the assistance of local agencies of the east Asian country. Chinchkar' extradition came on the basis of the Red Corner Notice issued against him, officials case against Chinchkar was registered after the seizure of about 200 gms of cocaine, which was found hidden in a projector from a parcel being sent from Mumbai to Australia through DHL Courier on January 21, the investigation further proceeded in the case, the NCB seized 11.540 kgs of cocaine, 4.9 kgs of cannabis and 5.5 kgs of cannabis gummies from Chinchkar's house in Navi Mumbai. The probe into the case further disclosed a well-oiled transnational syndicate involved in the trafficking of cocaine from the US to India and further distribution within India and investigation also revealed the involvement of the Clearing House Agent (CHA) and hawala operators. A total of eight people have been arrested so far and the kingpin, Navin Chinchkar, who was located in Thailand in 2021 after absconding from an earlier case of NCB regarding the trafficking of LSD, was traced to Malaysia after a Red Corner Notice issued by the NCB anti-narcotics agency has already revealed that the syndicate was operating for at least one year and multiple consignments of cocaine to air cargo were received in Mumbai during this the basis of the interrogation of the kingpin Navin Chinchkar, the agency hopes to extract vital clues and is likely to reveal more details of his operations, including the source of drugs in the US.A financial investigation in the case has already led to the identification of assets including properties and bank accounts in are also underway to attach these properties. Earlier this month, the NCB was successful in the deportation of one accused from the UAE, who was involved in a drug trafficking case in further crackdown on illegal drug trafficking, the NCB has urged citizens to also play their part by providing information through MANASNational Narcotics Helpline Toll Free Number-1933. The identity of the informer will be kept confidential.
