For the first time in the nation, the Karnataka

police at Bengaluru have got attached  movable and immovable properties worth Rs 1.6 crore belonging to an inter-state drug peddler Ajay Kumar Singh from Bihar, and was booked under the NDPS Act.

He earned properties including three sites, a flat and an SUV, apart from a bank balance to the tune of Rs 9.7 lakh. The police in 2019, had busted a drug ring and seized 822 kg of drugs from Singh and his associates.

Singh was said to be a major peddler, who used to supply contraband to local peddlers and consumers for the last five years. He was also arrested earlier in Bihar and Delhi for drug-related offences. He sourced drugs, especially marijuana, from his contact in Odisha, and brought it into the city through a contact from Visakhapatnam.

The police took up the investigation under Chapter VA of the NDPS Act, deals with freezing and seizing illegally acquired properties. Using his associates David Rahul and Muralidhar Anjay Kumar, Singh would peddle marijuana in the city.