In a crackdown on repeat narcotics offenders, the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai Police has secured the preventive detention of a 43-year-old alleged drug trafficker under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act, 1988, officials said.

The accused, Tamijul Haider Mazharhool Haider Rizvi alias Misam (43), a resident of Malwani in Malad West, has been detained for one year and lodged in Nashik Road Central Jail following approval from the Maharashtra Home Department.