From which country was narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh deported to India in October 2026?

The correct answer is Navab Virk. That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan. Indian agencies removed one layer of the disguise after another, fixed his real identity as Navpreet Singh, and obtained his deportation; he was jailed in India in drug-trafficking and other criminal cases. Navdeep Brar is wrong because no such alias is mentioned anywhere in the government statement. Nawaz Virdi is wrong: it only resembles the real alias in sound and is not the name on the Turkish papers. Noor Virk is wrong for the same reason, a near-miss on the surname alone. Candidates should fix both names together, the real one and the forged one.

The correct answer is 288 fugitives from 36 countries. That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy. The other three options alter either the number of fugitives or the number of countries and so do not match the official figure. Option A understates both; option B is closer but still wrong on each count; option D inflates both. Students should also link the figure to the legal groundwork of the same period: the NIA and UAPA amendments of 2019, the mission-mode drive from 2020, and the BHARATPOL platform that speeds up information sharing with the CBI.

The correct answer is January 2025. BHARATPOL was launched then by the Union Home Minister to improve coordination, connectivity and information sharing between Indian and foreign law enforcement agencies. It places the CBI, state police headquarters working through Interpol Liaison Officers, and district police headquarters on one platform, and more than 1,400 offices of state and central agencies are connected to it. As a result, material the CBI seeks now arrives in 10 to 20 days, and sometimes in 3 to 10 days, which helps extradition cases such as this one move faster. August 2023, July 2024 and March 2026 are wrong because the platform was neither announced nor opened in those months; only the January 2025 launch is on record in the government statement.

The correct answer is poppy straw. Of the total stock destroyed in the disposal operation, poppy straw accounted for 10,823.990 kg, which is almost the whole of the consignment. The remaining items were far smaller in quantity: heroin at 7.535 kg, charas at 7.400 kg, mephedrone at 3.175 kg and brown sugar at 0.050 kg, adding up with the poppy straw to the overall figure for the operation. Options A, B and C therefore name drugs that were indeed part of the destroyed stock but in very small amounts compared with poppy straw. The distinction matters because poppy straw is bulky plant material, while heroin, charas and mephedrone are concentrated substances that are trafficked in much smaller weights, and examination questions often test this sense of proportion.

The correct answer is Thailand. Acting on specific intelligence about a suspect consignment, officers of the bureau at Jaipur examined an international parcel received from that country at the Foreign Post Office and found hydroponic weed weighing 1.080 kg concealed inside 29 pouches of cake, which had been mixed with other cake packets and articles so that the contraband would escape attention. Options A, C and D name other countries often discussed in connection with narcotics routes into the region, but the parcel in this case came from Thailand. The case is a reminder that postal and courier consignments are a channel that enforcement agencies watch closely, and that the bureau says it keeps international consignments under watch on the basis of specific intelligence inputs.