Maharashtra Drug Bust: 2 Held With Rs 50 Crore Mephedrone In Mumbai, Lab Busted In Raigad | India Information

Mumbai: The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) has busted a clandestine mephedrone manufacturing lab in Maharashtra’s Raigad district after seizing the contraband valued at Rs 50 crore from a home in Mumbai, officers mentioned on Thursday. Two males, together with the producer of the artificial drug, have been arrested, they mentioned.

A provider of the medicine (who’s among the many two held) has two earlier circumstances towards him beneath the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, which had been registered by the Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI). He was out on bail and concerned within the mephedrone manufacturing syndicate, an official mentioned.

Primarily based on particular data, the NCB personnel apprehended two individuals after seizing 46.8 kg of mephedrone from a home in Bhandup space of Mumbai on Saturday, he mentioned. The drug was stored hidden in a plastic container on the residence of one in every of them, the official mentioned.

Through the interrogation, it got here to gentle that one of many arrested accused manufactured the drug at a laboratory located in Mahad industrial space of neighbouring Raigad, he mentioned. A group of the NCB subsequently performed a raid on the lab and chemical substances used to fabricate the drug had been seized in a big amount, he mentioned. The NCB sleuths have sealed the lab, the official mentioned. Additional probe into the case was underway, he added.