MUMBAI, Oct 29 : The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested Danish Chikna, a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and “kingpin” of a drug syndicate, along with his wife from Goa, officials said on Wednesday.

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

The NCB has arrested Danish and three other persons and seized 1.341 kg of mephedrone from their possession, he said.

Based on intelligence inputs, the NCB’s Mumbai unit on September 18 intercepted one N Gaikwad in Pune, from whom 502 grams of mephedrone was seized.

In the immediate follow-up action, 839 grams of the contraband was seized from another drug associate Zohaib Shaikh in Mumbai. The premises we

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