Drug lord Arif Bhujwala sentenced to 15 years in NDPS case by Thane court

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• A special court under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Thane has sentenced alleged drug lord Mohammad Arif Bhujwala to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment in a narcotics trafficking case and directed him to surrender before authorities as he was out on bail during the trial.
• Bhujwala, considered a close associate of Parvez alias Chinku Pathan — grandson of late underworld don Karim Lala — was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in 2021 after a major drug bust at his hideout in Mangaon village of Maharashtra’s Raigad district.
• Read Full Story According to the prosecution, the NCB acted on prior intelligence and conducted raids at multiple locations, recovering narcotic substances including heroin and MD from several accused persons.
• Investigators alleged that the accused were part of a larger drug trafficking network in which some peddlers sourced drugs from Bhujwala and further distributed them, while others...