Mephedrone worth Rs 300 crore seized in Mumbai, 12 arrested
Mumbai(PTI): Mumbai Police has seized mephedrone worth Rs 300 crore and arrested 12 persons from different cities in an operation that lasted two months, an official said on Friday.
A drug manufacturing unit located at Shindegaon MIDC industrial area in Nashik district was raided on Thursday, said Joint Commissioner of Police Satyanarayan Choudhary here. A total of 151.3 kg of mephedrone worth Rs 300.26 crore was seized during the entire operation, he added.
The probe began when the suburban Sakinaka police in Mumbai apprehended Anwar Sayyad (42), an alleged drug peddler, with 10 grams of mephedrone, a banned drug, on August 8.
The information provided by him led to the arrest of three persons on the same day for alleged drug peddling in Dharavi area of central Mumbai, and 90 grams of mephedrone was seized from them.
One of the accused told police that the drug was sourced from Arif Nasir Shaikh (42), a resident of Dharavi.
A Mumbai police team nabbed him in Hyderabad, and seized 110 grams of mephedrone, a country-made pistol, seven live rounds and Rs 4 lakh in cash from his possession, JCP Choudhary said.
Arif allegedly told police that he procured the drug from Nasir Umar Shaikh (58), a resident of J J Marg area in South Mumbai. On August 20, a police team arrested Nasir with 1.2 kg of mephedrone.
Subsequently, Rehan Ansari and Asmat Ansari were arrested from Shil Phata in Thane district with 15 kg of drugs.
A police team under supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police Datta Nalawade then got information about one Zishan Shaikh, who allegedly sourced mephedrone from a manufacturing unit in Nashik district.
Zishan Shaikh was arrested and the mephedrone manufacturing unit situated in Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation's (MIDC) Shindegaon industrial estate was raided, where 133 kg of mephedrone worth Rs 267 crore was seized, the police official said.
During the probe, three more persons had been arrested.
A team of the Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai crime branch led by DCP Nalawade had busted a racket and seized mephedrone worth Rs 2,500 crore in 2022, he said.
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Unidentified men set fire to TVK campaign office near Srirangam
Tiruchirapalli (PTI): A campaign office of the actor Vijay-led TVK was allegedly torched by unidentified miscreants in Kamanayakkanpalayam village near Srirangam in the early hours of Friday, police said.
According to the police, the damage is minimal. Fire had engulfed the thatched roof providing shade at the entrance of the building that served as the party’s election office for the Srirangam constituency.
While on social media, a CCTV footage of two unidentified men fleeing on motorbike is being circulated as the culprits, police said the video footage is yet to be verified.
Based on a complaint lodged by TVK, the Pettaivaithalai Police have registered a case and initiated a search for the perpetrators.
திருவரங்கம் தொகுதியில் த.வெ.க வேட்பாளரின் தேர்தல் அலுவலகம் மர்ம நபர்களால் தீவைக்கப்பட்டு சேதப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது. @TNelectionsCEO @ECISVEEP#TVKVijay #தமிழகவெற்றிக்கழகம் pic.twitter.com/ImDZfTkuAq
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