NT Reporter
Panaji
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Goa zonal unit has filed a chargesheet against Israeli national David Driham alias Dudu in connection with the June 2025 drugs case.
The matter will come
up for hearing on December 29 before the Principal District and Sessions Judge, North Goa.
It may be noted that on June 4, the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Mapusa, citing NCB’s failure of to provide the grounds of arrest in writing, had granted conditional bail to Dudu. The NCB had arrested the accused with a variable quantity of suspected cocaine during a raid in North Goa.
The court had observed that no copy of the grounds of arrest was given to the accused. “It is mentioned that grounds of arrest are explained to the accused, however copy of the grounds of arrest is not given to the accused nor to the relatives and the memo of arrest is not the same as grounds of arrest,” the court had said.
JMFC further observed that since a copy of the grounds of arrest was not furnished to the accused, it amounted to a violation of fundamental rights, as held by the Supreme Court in the Vihaan Kumar vs State of Haryana case of 2025.
Incidentally, in 2023, a court had discharged Dudu in connection with a 2010 drugs case due to lack of sufficient material to frame charges against him, while ordering the framing of charges against then Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) Goa police officials. The Goa
police officials were accused of planting drugs on Dudu in 2010.
The case was subsequently transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which revealed that Dudu was threatened and a false case was made against him.
