The Mumbai Anti-Narcotics Police (ANC) has busted a major drug syndicate linked to underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim. The names of several Bollywood celebrities are now emerging during the investigation.
Names include rapper Lok, actress Shraddha Kapoor, socialite Orry and director duo Abbas-Mustan. Zeeshan Siddiqui, whose father Baba Siddique was shot dead in October 2024, was also named.
The syndicate was allegedly run by wanted drug lord Salim Dola. Associate Dawood ran the network from Dubai. According to police, he supplied mephedrone (M-Cat or Meow Meow) to several Indian states and even smuggled it overseas.
His son Taher Dola was extradited from the UAE in August. It is Taher who provided key information to investigators.
According to confidential documents accessed by India Today, Taher claimed that Bollywood actors, models, rappers, filmmakers and even Dawood’s relatives attended drug parties he organized in India and abroad.
The arrest warrant alleges that Taher not only organized these parties, but also supplied drugs at the events. Further investigations into the network and the individuals involved are ongoing.
“The said accused has earlier organized drug parties in the country and abroad with Alisha Parkar, Nora Fatehi, Shraddha Kapoor and her brother Siddharth Kapoor, Zishan Siddiqui, Ori alias Orhan, Abbas Mastaan, Loka and many others and has himself joined them and supplies drugs to these and others,” the document said.
Interestingly, Shraddha Kapoor played Dawood Ibrahim’s younger sister Haseena Parkar in the 2017 film directed by Apoorva Lakhia. In this film, her brother Siddharth Kapoor played Dawood.
Alisha Parkar (also spelled Alishah Parkar), whose name appears in the documents, is the son of Haseena Parkar.
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“Opulent” parties
Mohammed Salim Mohammed Suhail Shaikh, who was deported from Dubai in October, is also in the custody of the ANC’s Ghatkopar unit. During interrogation, Shaikh admitted to organizing drug parties in India and abroad, according to PTI.
Known in the drug world as “flamboyant” because of his expensive lifestyle, Shaikh used luxury cars, designer watches and expensive clothes.
He was first arrested after being deported for his alleged role in ₹Seizure of 252 million mephedrone in Maharashtra’s Sangli district in March 2024. According to the police, he was working for an international drug syndicate.
The ANC is now trying to identify others who attended these parties. He is checking whether other drug smugglers organized similar events for the birthday party. Officials have not ruled out questioning celebrities named in the probe, PTI reported.
