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Modi Govt Secures Deportation of Narco Kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye
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News18•03-10-2026, 10:22
Modi Govt Secures Deportation of Narco Kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye
- •Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the deportation of alleged narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye to India.
- •Navpreet Singh, also known as Nav, was tracked down by Indian agencies despite using a false identity and Turkish citizenship as Navab Virk.
- •He is accused of smuggling heroin and methamphetamine to India from Afghanistan and is now in custody facing drug trafficking charges.
- •Navpreet Singh was identified as the Türkiye-based kingpin of an international narcotics syndicate, with his cousin Prabhdeep Singh as the operational link in India.
- •The investigation, which began in 2021, led to significant heroin seizures and the extradition of Prabhdeep Singh from Azerbaijan earlier this year.
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Indian agencies tracked down Navpreet Singh after uncovering his true identity, despite the fact that he had obtained Turkish citizenship under the fake identity of Navab Virk and continued to smuggle drugs from Afghanistan.
The investigation began in 2021 with the arrest of Rizwan Kashmiri in south Delhi, whose interrogation helped uncover a wider drug network and subsequently led to major heroin seizures in Faridabad.
In May, Indian agencies secured the extradition of Prabhdeep Singh—Navpreet Singh's cousin and operational link—after he was traced to a flat in Baku, Azerbaijan, and arrested following an Interpol Red Notice.
