Panaji: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested Danish Chikna, a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and the alleged “kingpin” of a drug syndicate, from Goa, officials said on Wednesday.

Danish Chikna, alias Danish Merchant, who had been on the run, was handling operations of a drug network linked to Dawood’s gang in the country, an official said.

The NCB has arrested Danish and three others and seized 1.341 kg of mephedrone from their possession, he added.

Based on intelligence inputs, the NCB Mumbai on September 18 intercepted a person in Pune, from whom 502 gm of mephedrone was seized.

In a follow-up operation, 839 gm of the contraband was recovered from another drug associate at the residence of Danish and his wife in Mumbai, the official said.

During the inves

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