Operation RAGEPILL: NCB Busts a Major International Drug Trafficking Network; Makes India’s First-Ever Seizure of Captagon, a Psychotropic Substance used in the Middle East Region

• Operation RAGEPILL is an NCB-led counter-narcotics operation that produced India's first-ever seizure of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) infamous in the Middle East as the "Jihadi drug".
• Total seizure: ~227.7 kg Captagon tablets/powder, value ~₹182 crore; one overstaying Syrian national arrested.
• Exposes India's emerging role as a transit hub in transnational synthetic drug flows between source labs and Gulf demand markets — relevant for GS-III (Internal Security: drug trafficking, money laundering) and GS-II (international agreements).