The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra on Wednesday took into custody Naveen Chichkar, who was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) last month after being deported from Malaysia, in drugs smuggling case, officials said, reported the PTI.

The NCB had earlier said that the kingpin behind a transnational drug trafficking syndicate, whose name had cropped up in a US cocaine smuggling case, was deported from Malaysia to India.

Chichkar is allegedly the main accused in the case of seizure of hydro weed in Navi Mumbai recently, they said.