Home Minister Amit Shah says suspected drug trafficker Navpreet Singh has been deported from Türkiye to India. In his announcement, Shah identifies Singh as a “hardened” narco-trafficking kingpin and says the process results in Singh being brought back for action in India.
According to Shah, Singh secured Turkish citizenship using a fake identity—“Navab Virk”—and allegedly continued drug smuggling operations into India. The claim is that Singh traffics heroin and methamphetamine to India while operating out of routes connected to Afghanistan.
The Indian outlets cited in the provided reports focus on Shah’s public statement and the fact of deportation from Türkiye. Where details are available, they align on the alleged use of a false identity for Turkish citizenship and ongoing cross-border trafficking involving heroin and methamphetamine sourced from Afghanistan. Other reporting adds limited additional detail beyond confirming the deportation event.
Authorities in India and Türkiye are not quoted directly in the provided excerpts, and specific court or investigative filings are not detailed here.
