The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai, has arrested a drug dealer who used children aged 10-12 years to peddle drugs to evade police action, officers said. They added that the accused, who was nabbed from Reay Road with MD, worked for Chinku Pathan -- a gangster from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s gang.

Several cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act are registered against Arif Rashid Shaikh, 49, alias Arif Chenu and the NCB was looking for him for the past several months, said the officers.