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Navi Mumbai: Drugs by students, for students, via vegetable vendors
Updated On: 29 February, 2024 06:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Faisal Tandel
Cops, who have seized drugs worth R8 lakh, suspect they were sourced from Goa, and preliminary investigations have shown that one main suspect may have fled country
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The engineering students had been operating the racket for the past few months
The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Navi Mumbai Crime Branch busted a drug cartel run by engineering students who sold drugs to other students through a vegetable vendor. The police have arrested the vegetable vendor and one engineering student in the case, while the student’s associate, who is also an engineering student, is suspected to have fled the country. Police said they have recovered a consignment of LSD paper worth Rs 8 lakh from the gang. Police sources said the drugs were brought from Goa and supplied to college students across the city and other parts through a syndicate of engineering students.
The accused, identified as Onkar Sanjay Kutale, 23, a resident of Panvel who worked as a vegetable vendor, and Lalit Sunil Pawar, 24, a resident of Panvel who is an engineering student in a Navi Mumbai college.
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