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Time of India
a day ago
- Time of India
NCB seizes Rs 9.2 crore assets of 'prime accused' in transnational drugs trafficking case from Noida
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has attached a flat and factory worth ₹9.20 crore in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, belonging to a key suspect in a 2024 transnational drug trafficking case with links to a Mexican cartel. This action follows the seizure of over 95 kg of amphetamine and the discovery of a clandestine drug lab in Noida last October. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sunday said it has attached a flat and a factory premises worth ₹9.20 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Noida of a "prime" accused involved in a 2024 transnational drugs trafficking case linked to a Mexican agency said in a statement that it had recently secured a confirmation on the attachment from the designated competent authority and administrator constituted under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances case pertains to the seizure of more than 95 kg of amphetamine and the unearthing of a clandestine narcotics manufacturing laboratory in Noida near Delhi in October last people, including a Tihar Jail warden, a Mexican national part of a drug cartel operating from that country, a Mumbai-based chemist and two Delhi-based businessmen, were arrested by the NCB agency, as part of the probe, attached immovable assets of the "prime accused" in the include a luxury apartment in Jaypee Greens residential society and a factory premises in Kasna Industrial Area of Gautam Budh Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), which were "acquired using proceeds from international narcotics trafficking", the NCB said.
Hindustan Times
a day ago
- Hindustan Times
NCB freezes ₹9.20 cr assets in international drugs trafficking racket involving Mexican cartel
New Delhi, The Narcotics Control Bureau on Sunday said it has attached a flat and a factory premises worth ₹9.20 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Noida of a "prime" accused involved in a 2024 trans-national drugs trafficking case linked to a Mexican cartel. The federal anti-narcotics agency said in a statement that it has recently secured a confirmation on the attachment from the designated competent authority and administrator constituted under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The case pertains to the seizure of over 95 kg of Amphetamine and the unearthing of a clandestine narcotics manufacturing laboratory in Noida near Delhi in October last year. Five people, including a Tihar Jail warden, a Mexican national part of a drug cartel operating from that country, a Mumbai-based chemist and two Delhi-based businessmen, were arrested by the NCB then. The agency, as part of the probe, attached immovable assets of one of the accused businessmen, also a "prime accused" in the case, worth ₹9.20 crore. This included a luxury apartment in Jaypee Greens residential society and a factory premises in Kasna Industrial Area of Gautam Budh Nagar , which were "acquired using proceeds from international narcotics trafficking," the NCB said. The NCB and the Special Cell of the Delhi Police had jointly busted the factory. The syndicate, including the five arrested people, was involved in "transnational smuggling" of synthetic drugs. All the arrested are presently lodged in jail under judicial custody, the agency said. The factory was "financed" by the CJNG Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion a notorious Mexican cartel, which transferred money to Dubai using cryptocurrency, it claimed. "The amount was then received in Delhi in cash by the accused through hawala, facilitated in three separate instalments," the NCB said.
India Today
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Murder they wrote: It's Indian crime fiction's moment in the sun
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated May 12, 2025)Between November 3-5 last year, Dehradun played host to the 2nd Crime Literature Festival of India, three days of literary events and panel discussions centred around crime writing. In addition to writers of crime fiction, there were also Bollywood mainstays like the filmmaker Prakash Jha, journalist Sunetra Chowdhury (whose book on Tihar Jail was adapted into the Netflix series Black Warrant), folks involved in the Amazon Prime crime series Mirzapur, etc. The festival was a reminder of how crime fiction is dominating bookshelves across the country. In recent years, Indian crime fiction has seen a notable uptick in both quality and quantity. Even a cursory glance at the 'new releases' section at bookstores will tell you about the genre's rude health in Random House India, for example, has recently released Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller, a work of crime fiction wherein an estranged mother-daughter duo must navigate a series of clues pertaining to Sufi poetry/music in order to solve the grisly murder of a young woman at a library. Picador/Pan Macmillan's recent offerings include Scarlet Sands by Udayan Mukherjee, the second novel featuring Neville Wadia, a private eye character who was once a Mumbai Police hero. Over at HarperCollins, another ex-cop private eye has started his innings—bestselling author Ashwin Sanghi's Razor Sharp is the first among an announced series featuring Prakash 'Kutta' Kadam, ex-cop turned private investigator.'One of the reasons I find crime fiction to be so compelling is that it is such a versatile genre,' says novelist Ankush Saikia. 'It can take you to so many interesting places as a writer. A story that begins with an individual's guilt can expand and incorporate societal institutions, public attitudes, historical events.' Saikia is one of the most successful and acclaimed practitioners of crime fiction in India. His recurring character, Detective Arjun Arora, has been featured in four books so far, most recently Tears of the Dragon (Speaking Tiger). One of these books, More Bodies Will Fall, drew from Saikia's life in the Northeast (Tezpur, Assam and Shillong, Meghalaya) and in Delhi—the murder victim here is a young woman from the Northeast, allegedly killed by her 'mainlander' boyfriend in the national 'For me, the setting of the novel comes first, and then the individual characters and their psychologies,' says Saikia. 'I left Delhi in 2011 and returned to the Northeast. Before that phase, I was trying to write a cop novel set in Delhi, but progress was slow. Once I changed the main character to a private detective and set it in the Northeast, everything flowed perfectly.' New Indian crime fiction comes with a variety of settings and backdrops Because of the way crime fiction has expanded laterally in Indian English publishing, aficionados can find a wide variety of settings. For example, Salil Desai's The Sane Psychopath and The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen (both Westland) are contemporary, noir-adjacent crime stories set in Pune. Rohan Monteiro's Shadows Rising introduces a supernatural element into the whodunit, with gods, demons and demi-gods all featuring in this Mumbai-set kidnapping thriller. The protagonist is a yaksha (a demi-god like entity in Hinduism) banished from the heavens, living out his days in contemporary Mumbai. Shesh's Sixty is the New Assassin sees a retired corporate employee deciding to take murderous revenge in between living the retired life at book clubs and tennis gatherings. There's even crime fiction aimed at children, like Sutapa Basu's Murder in the Jungle, where a Famous Five-like group investigates a spate of tiger deaths at the Nagarhole Wildlife indicator of the genre's cultural dominance is the number of new writers. These include debut writers as well as practitioners better known for, say, literary fiction, producing novels that are written and marketed as crime fiction. Anita Nair's Hot Stage and Tanuj Solanki's Manjhi's Mayhem are stellar examples of the latter, as is Deepti Kapur's Age of Vice. 'I think anybody who has even the slightest interest in the psychology of a person will be drawn to crime fiction,' says Girish Dutt Shukla. 'Gangster stories are different, where there's organised crime and economic motives but I feel that most lay readers are drawn to the question of 'why would a perfectly ordinary person be driven to murder?'' Shukla's crime novel Cold-Blooded Love was published by Rupa a couple of years ago. A computer scientist by education, Shukla hopes to build a career writing crime undeniable that crime fiction is in the middle of a cultural moment in India. What remains to be seen is whether publishers can build upon this momentum and string together an array of writers and books—look at how efficiently Nordic crime fiction (Jo Nesbo, Asa Larsson et al) has been marketed globally. Hopefully, we can pull off something similar and bring Indian crime writers to the attention of readers around the to India Today Magazine
India Today
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
India's crime fiction wave
Between November 3-5 last year, Dehradun played host to the 2nd Crime Literature Festival of India, three days of literary events and panel discussions centred around crime writing. In addition to writers of crime fiction, there were also Bollywood mainstays like the filmmaker Prakash Jha, journalist Sunetra Chowdhury (whose book on Tihar Jail was adapted into the Netflix series Black Warrant), folks involved in the Amazon Prime crime series Mirzapur, etc. The festival was a reminder of how crime fiction is dominating bookshelves across the country. In recent years, Indian crime fiction has seen a notable uptick in both quality and quantity. Even a cursory glance at the 'new releases' section at bookstores will tell you about the genre's rude health in India.
