India, Oct. 30 -- The Mumbai unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has dismantled a major Mumbai-based drug syndicate in a multi-state operation conducted over a month, and on Saturday arrested the kingpin and three others - his wife and two associates.

In the intelligence-led operation, the NCB traced the alleged kingpin, Danish Merchant alias 'Danish Chikna', who was 'externed' from Mumbai's municipal limits in 2024 after featuring as an accused in seven criminal cases registered by the city police, and his wife Henna, to a luxury resort in Goa on Saturday when they were arrested. Merchant and his wife, alleged to be his partner in the drug-running trade, were on the run for over a month and had changed their mobile numbers, vehic...