Three held with MDMA, brown sugar worth Rs 31.6 lakh in Navi Mumbai

Three persons have been arrested for alleged possession of MDMA and brown sugar worth Rs 316 lakh in Navi Mumbai police said on SaturdayBased on a tipoff the police laid a trap in the Koparkhairne area on Friday evening and intercepted the accused who were found moving about suspiciously newswire PTI reported quoting an officialThe police recovered 63 gm of methylenedioxymethamphetamine MDMA and 253 gm of brown sugar valued at Rs 316 lakh from their possession he saidThe accused Mohammad Shamim Ismail Ansari alias Sam 27 Khalida Khatun Mohammad Azim Ansari 23 and Afia Khatun Hayat Mohammad Ansari 19 were arrested while their accomplice Ruksana Ansari is absconding the official saidA case under relevant provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act has been registered and investigations are underway to find out from where the contraband was sourced and the intended customersIn a separate incident a man allegedly sexually assaulted a sevenyearold girl in Maharashtras Palghar district and fled to Surat in neighbouring Gujarat from where he was arrested two days later police said on SaturdayThe incident occurred on Tuesday at Achole in Palghar they saidDuring a probe the police found that the 28yearold accused who hails from Rajasthan had also allegedly molested another girl a few months back in Palghar an official saidAround 1230 pm on February 13 the accused entered the victims building and forcibly took her to the terrace where he committed unnatural sexual assault on her senior inspector Shahuraj Ranavre of crime unitII in Vasai saidBased on a complaint lodged by the victim a case was registered under Indian Penal Code IPC sections 377 unnatural offences and 363 kidnapping and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act at Achole police station he saidThe crime branch officials formed a couple of teams to trace the accused They checked the CCTV footage of the locality and found that he lived in a slum colony in Nalasopara in the district As per the intelligence inputs the police came to know that the accused was travelling by Ajmer Express he saidA police team followed him and nabbed him in Surat with the help of the local crime branch officials within 48 hours he saidDuring his interrogation it came to light that the accused had dragged another sevenyearold girl in Nalasopara to an isolated place and tried to molest her Ranavre saidA case under IPC section 354 assault or use of criminal force to any woman intending to outrage her modesty and the POCSO Act was registered at Tulinj police station in connection with that incident he said With inputs from PTI