Overview

• The frozen assets comprise three two-wheelers and one house that investigators say were bought with drug proceeds.
• Police executed the action under Section 68F(1) of the NDPS Act after a financial probe by the Northwest district Operation Cell.
• The order was cleared by the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Revenue and sent to local revenue and transport offices to block any transfer.
• The case stems from the February arrest of Kumar’s son, Nitin Badhwan, who was found with 365 grams of heroin and Rs 1.88 lakh and whose interrogation led to Kumar’s May arrest.
• Kumar has been labeled a repeat offender with more than 11 criminal cases, and police describe the financial action as a move to weaken narcotics networks.