New Delhi: Metro cities in India serve as prime destinations for contraband and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in synchronised operations in Mumbai and other parts of the country, has made various seizures and arrests which have ramifications on the narcotics supply chain, the Home Ministry said on Thursday.
The NCB is conducting massive operations against drug traffickers and regular raids on their possible hideouts after identifying their modus operandi and whereabouts, a Home Ministry statement said. Giving details, the ministry said that on the basis of specific information, a team of NCB seized one kg of cocaine and 2 kg of PCP (phencyclidine) from one M Ahmed from Vasai, Palghar in Maharashtra on October 12. During interrogation, Ahmed said that the contraband was provided by one SK Saurabh for further selling. On the basis of manual intelligence and technical surveillance, the NCB team apprehended Saurabh on October 13 from Vasai, Palghar. His sustained interrogation resulted in further recovery of 29.3 kg of MDA from his shop and godown on October 14. Saurabh also said that the drugs belong to A Khanivadekar and R Khanivadekar, the statement said.
A Khanivadekar was been apprehended and during interrogation, he said that his brother R. Khanivadekar is an accused in a DRI case involving 483 kg of ephidrine and is currently out on bail. Before the raid, they had shifted the contrabands to the shop and godown of Saurabh and he had taken out the recovered drugs from that lot while shifting. (PTI)
