Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi's nephew Abu Aslam Azmi was summoned by the Goa unit of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on July 7 in connection with the matter related to drug peddler Sufran Lakdawala.

In a statement, NCB informed that Abu Aslam Azmi's name cropped up during the interrogation of Lakdawala who was arrested on July 8. "In Sufran Lakdawala drugs case, Goa NCB team has summoned a person named Abu Aslam Azmi for questioning. Abu Aslam Azmi is close to a big leader of the Samajwadi Party. On July 8, Lakdawala was arrested from Mira Road with cocaine drugs," NCB said in the statement.