A month ago, if someone mentioned the name Jaffer Sadiq, not many even in Tamil Nadu, would have been able to relate to him. Today, he has become a nightmare for sections of the high and mighty in the State. For the Opposition, he is the latest political weapon in an election season.
Sadiq is a little known film producer. Some months ago, the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) in Delhi, said it received a tip off from the New Zealand customs and Australian police about large shipments of pseudoephedrine being sent to those countries in the cover of food grade drugs.
The NCB also got a tip off from the United States Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) saying the likely origin of this consignment could be New Delhi. Pseudoephedrine is a chemical used to manufacture meth. The NCB said in mid-February, it managed to raid a godown where these consignments were stored and it arrested three persons, all belonging to Tamil Nadu.
