Maharashtra: 26-year-old man held in Navi Mumbai, drugs worth Rs 8 lakh seized

The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra arrested a 26yearold man and seized heroin valued at more than Rs 8 lakh from his possession in Navi Mumbai an official said on Tuesday reported the PTIAccording to the PTI the Navi Mumbai polices AntiNarcotics Cell ANC arrested the alleged drug peddler identified as Ajay Jadhav on Monday from the Ghansoli area he saidHe was found in possession of 5426 grams of heroin valued at Rs 813900 said the official from the Rabale police stationMumbai Police seizes drugs worth over Rs 100 crore busts mephedrone factory in RajasthanMeanwhile in an another incident the Mumbai Police had earlier this month busted a drugmaking unit in Rajasthan and seized mephedrone worth over Rs 100 crore an official saidA raid was conducted in Rajasthans Jodhpur and drugs drug producing materials were seized by the team of police officials he had earlier saidThe total value of the seizure is worth around Rs 107 crore he addedThe action came after the investigations in a case where the police officials from Sakinaka Police Station in suburban Mumbai nabbed two suspects with mephedrone worth over Rs 3 crore in Mumbai in December 2023The police investigations revealed that the suspects had allegedly got the drugs from a person running a drug manufacturing unit in Rajasthans Jodhpur the official saidA team of police officials reached Jodhpur and raided the premises They found that he was allegedly producing drugs in the unit police sources had earlier saidApart from mephedrone and raw materials used to make the drug were also seized from the unit being run by a manAll three persons have been booked under the stringent Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act and further investigations were underwayIn a similar incident in October last year the Mumbai crime branch unit9 had busted a drugs manufacturing factory in Solapur district of Maharashtra and had seized drugs and drug manufacturing materials valuing over Rs 100 crore in the marketAccording to the Mumbai Police the officials of the crime branch unit9 had initially received information regarding drug peddlers being active in Bandra west and Khar areas of the city a special team of police officials from crime branch unit9 was formed to investigate the information furtherThe police had then said huge quantity of drugs was seized from the suspects aged 32 and 27 respectivelyFrom one of the suspect 2547 kilos of mephedrone MD drugs was seized it was valued at over Rs 59 crore in the market whereas drugs worth over Rs 58 crore was seized from another suspect it weighed at around 58 kiloswith PTI inputs