The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 12, filed its third supplementary charge sheet against a person identified as Pankaj Vaid alias Amit, a resident of Amritsar in Punjab in the NIA Special Court, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, in the Mundra Port drugs haul case related to the seizure of 2,988 kg heroin in 2021, reports The Print. An NIA official stated, “Pankaj is accused of being a part of the organized criminal conspiracy to smuggle illegal consignments of heroin through international trade routes to India from Afghanistan, adding he was associated with foreign-based narcotics traders involved in pushing drugs into India”. The NIA which took over the investigations in the case on October 6, 2021, filed a charge sheet against 16 people on March 14, 2022 and filed the first supplementary charge sheet against nine more people on August 29, 2022 and the second against seven firms and 15 individuals on February 20, 2023.