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“The Centre has extended the tenure of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) main Anurag Garg till July adjacent year,” according to a Personnel Ministry order.
Mr. Garg, a 1993 batch Indian Police Service serviceman of Himachal Pradesh cadre, was appointed Director General of the NCB successful September 2024. His tenure was to extremity connected May 23 this year.
“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved hold successful Mr. Garg's deputation tenure arsenic DG, NCB, beyond May 23, 2026, up to July 31, 2027, that is the day of his superannuation,” said the bid dated May 21.
The NCB precocious busted respective cause trafficking syndicates and made the country's first-ever seizure of Captagon, the alleged "Jihadi Drug".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected May 16 announced the busting of an planetary cause syndicate progressive successful the trafficking of Captagon with a seizure of 227 kg of the "jihadi drug" valued astatine ₹182 crore.
“Captagon is the thoroughfare sanction historically linked to fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant developed successful the 1960s, which earned the sobriquet of the "jihadi drug" owed to repeated allegations and quality inputs linking its maltreatment and trafficking with extremist and conflict-zone networks operating successful parts of West Asia,” sources said.
The NCB past period besides secured the instrumentality of notorious planetary drug trafficker Mohammad Salim Dola from Turkiye.
