Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh got deported from Turkiye. Singh used a fake identity to smuggle drugs into India from Afghanistan. Shah said, "Modi govt has achieved a historic milestone by securing the deportation of hardened narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye."
Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that hardened narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh has been deported from Turkiye.
In a post on X, Shah said that Singh obtained Turkish citizenship under the fake identity of Navab Virk and continued to smuggle heroin and methamphetamine to India from Afghanistan.
"Modi govt has achieved a historic milestone by securing the deportation of hardened narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye," the post read.
"Our agencies tracked him down, ripping apart veil after veil to unmask his true identity, and secured his deportation. Today he has been brought back to India and put behind bars in connection with cases involving drug trafficking and other crimes he is accused of. Congratulations to all the agencies for this success," Shah said.