MUMBAI: The Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) probing the smuggling of hashish from Kashmir has stumbled upon some crucial leads to link the syndicate with a drug cartel that is active in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) and linked to terror funding.
NCB wants to question underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar’s alleged role in the syndicate.
Iqbal is currently lodged in Thane central jail in connection with an extortion racket.
NCB is likely to get Iqbal’s custody by Friday afternoon.
NCB suspects that Iqbal may be aiding and abetting the drug syndicate while being escorted to courts.
“We are taking Iqbal’s custody for questioning.
We have information which we need to confront him with for which we have taken court’s permission to question him.
If we establish a link, we may arrest him…,” said an official.
Sources said three of seven arrested accused spilled the beans on him.
The NCB on Thursday moved a court in Bhiwandi and Thane MCOCA court to take Kaskar into custody in connection with the drug syndicate.
NCB takes custody of Kaskar in drugs case
