Nephew of Indira’s killer revealed to be New Zealand’s biggest drug smuggler: 22 years’ imprisonment, claims – petition to conceal identity withdrawn – Ludhiana News

Baltej Singh, a major drug smuggler caught in New Zealand, turns out to be the nephew of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassin Satwant Singh. Under the guise of business in Auckland, he was running an international drug smuggling network. He is a resident of Punjab. In 2025, the High Court of New Zealand sentenced him to 22 years in prison, although he appealed not to make his identity public. His argument was that his family would be in danger if his identity became public. Accepting which the court had given instructions to the police, government and media not to reveal his name. It is being claimed that now he has withdrawn his petition filed in the Supreme Court there. After which the New Zealand media made his identity completely public. Investigation revealed that Baltej Singh used to smuggle methamphetamine and ephedrine from India, Dubai and America. He used to smuggle drugs to New Zealand by hiding them in coconut water cans, honey beer cans and kombucha bottles. Starting from 2021, under this network, goods from different countries were transported to Auckland through flights and containers. In January 2023, when he started opening thousands of boxes at his rented unit, the police conducted a raid, recovered more than 700 kg of methamphetamine from there and arrested him. Know what happened in the proceedings in the court.. Baltej Singh used to carry narcotics in coconut water containers and was a businessman in South Auckland. In 2021, he rented an industrial unit and started importing drugs in large quantities. In August the same year, 1440 boxes of coconut water reached Auckland from New Delhi on a Malaysian Airlines flight. The cans appeared normal on the outside, but some contained ephedrine (a drug used to make meth) and dissolved meth. A few months later, boxes of coconut water again arrived on an Emirates flight from Dubai. These were also sent from New Delhi and ephedrine and meth were found in them. More than a year later, in October 2022, a container ship from Toronto arrived in Tauranga. It had a 40 feet container, which contained 28,800 cans of honey beer. Another 40-foot container arrived from the US in December, containing 22,680 bottles of kombucha. In early January 2023, Singh had two trucks pick up thousands of cans of beer and bottles of kombucha and deliver them to his rented unit. There he and another person, Himatjit ‘Jimmy’ Singh Khalon, started unpacking. More than 700 kg of methamphetamine was found from this unit. When the police came to know about this, they raided this unit and found more than 700 kg of methamphetamine in liquid and crystallized form from there. Police also arrested Baltej Singh. Methamphetamine is a synthetic intoxicant. Methamphetamine is a synthetic intoxicant. Using it causes addiction. It is called crystal meth, ice or speed. It rapidly increases the chemical called dopamine in the brain and stimulates the nervous system and gives a feeling of high energy, awareness and happiness. People take methamphetamine in different ways including smoking, injection, snorting, and taking it in tablet or capsule form. It has serious physical and mental side effects. Methamphetamine becomes addictive very quickly.



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