On-the-run drug cartel kingpin had sponsored CCTVs for Chennai cops
Sadiq, who was office bearer of NRI wing of DMK was dismissed from the party after NCB started looking for him.
Shankar Jiwal and NCB suspect Jaffer Sadiq
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu head of police force, Sankar Jiwal, on Thursday disclosed that the wanted NCB suspect Jaffer Sadiq in the past had sponsored CCTV for Chennai city.
Jiwal told reporters that Sadiq donated money to install CCTV cameras in the Nungambakkam area. Donors, including Sadiq, then took photos with him. “We returned the CCTV cameras to the firm through which Sadiq donated them to the city police and installed new CCTV cameras,” clarified the State police chief.
Jiwal also said the officials of the central agency, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), are yet to reach out to TN police to track and nab the absconding Jaffer Sadiq, who is also into producing Tamil films.
Sadiq, also an office-bearer of the NRI wing of the DMK, was dismissed from the party after the NCB started looking for him. Sadiq has been absconding ever since the NCB busted the cartel smuggling synthetic drugs to foreign countries, including New Zealand, Australia and other Southeast Asian Countries, from India.
Sankar Jiwal was talking to the media after handing over the badges and certificates to anti-drug club members from the city’s colleges at the Chennai police commissioner’s office on Thursday.
To a specific query, Jiwal said a case booked against Sadiq by the MKB Nagar police in 2013 was closed in 2017.