Anti-Narcotics Cell seizes drugs worth Rs 30 lakh, five drug peddlers arrested

AntiNarcotics Cell of Mumbai Police on Thursday seized drugs worth an estimated to be Rs 30 lakh and arrested five drug peddlers officials told news agency ANIThe operation was carried out by the Bandra unit of the AntiNarcotics Cell in the Mahim area of Mumbai reported ANIFollowing their arrest the accused were booked under the relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances ActThe identity of the accused persons is being ascertained reported ANIBandra Unit of Mumbai Anti Narcotics Cell arrested five drug peddlers from Mahim area and seized MD drugs worth Rs 30 Lakhs in the international market Case registered against them under NDPS Act officials told ANIIn June ANC of Mumbai police arrested two drug peddlers from the Sewri area and recovered MDMA drugs worth Rs 30 lakh One of the arrested accused belonged to Uttar Pradeshs Gonda while another one is from Maharashtras Jalna as per policeIn May Mumbai Crime Branchs AntiExtortion Cell arrested Ali Asghar Parvez Shirazi who is a close aide of Kailash Rajput a major supplier of drugs in India from Mumbai airport The police further said that the accused Ali Asghar Shirazi was trying to flee from Mumbai to DubaiIn the same month the AntiNarcotics Cell of Azad Maidan unit in Mumbai arrested a drug peddler and seized drugs worth Rs 68 lakhs from his possessionIn April ANC of Mumbai police arrested two drug peddlers from the Dharavi and Chembur area and recovered MDMA drugs worth Rs 37 lakhANC of Mumbai Police made a major crackdown on a drug racket when it on March 21 arrested three drug peddlers and recovered drugs worth Rs 10 crore in the Bandra areaEarlier on March 18 Mumbai Crime Branch Unit arrested five drug peddlers from the Santacruz area and seized drugs worth Rs 49 lakhMeanwhile a Nigerian and a Kalyanresident were arrested for alleged involvement in drug peddling a Navi Mumbai police official told news agency PTI on ThursdayActing on a tip off the two were held on Wednesday evening the Panvel Town police station official told PTIThey have been identified as Agu Pascal alias Kalyechi Onyema 24 who is originally from Nigeria and Shahbaz Elukar 29 from Daighar in Kalyan We have seized 27 grams of methaqualone worth Rs 270 lakh from them the official told PTIA Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act case has been registered and a probe to unravel the peddling network is underway he saidWith inputs from ANI and PTI