A week after Arif Bhujwala managed to give the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officers the slip, he was arrested from Mangaon in Raigad district, where he was hiding in the house of one of his henchmen. The NCB nabbed Bhujwala and two other people – a drug peddler and his driver — with help from the Raigad police. The cops have also seized five mobile phones from him. 

According to the NCB, Bhujwala met Dawood’s aide Kailash Rajput in Dubai after which the latter helped him with money to start the drug business. A total of four cases have been registered against Rajput in India. One case is with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, one with the Delhi Special Cell, one with the Mumbai Narcotics Cell and one with the NCB.