MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police have effected a large drugs haul, valued at Rs 1,000 crore and arrested four drug-peddlers, a best respectable mentioned on Friday.
The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) swooped on a automobile parked at Shastri Nagar, in Vile Parle and seized around 100 kg of the banned Fentanyl, which is alleged to be 50 instances extra tough than heroin.
According to ANC chief, DCP Shivdeep Lande, following a competent tip-off to a policeman Santosh Bhalekar a couple of supply of Fentanyl, the ANC's Azad Maidan Unit laid a trap on Wednesday.
Four drug peddlers had been stuck with the medication near the carrier highway out of doors the Mumbai Airport in Vile Parle east, mentioned Lande, of the most important luck notched by means of Mumbai Police thus far.
"We have seized 100kg of the banned drugs. It is worth around Rs 10 crore/kg and the total seizure is worth around Rs 1,000 crore," Lande mentioned.
The four accused arrested are -- Salim Ismail Dhola, 52 of Ghodapdev and Chandramani Matamani Tiwari, 41 of Kandivali, and Sandeep Indrajeet Tiwari and Ghanshyam Ramraj Saroj, each from Nala Sopara the town within the adjoining Palghar district.
According to the tip-off, Dhola and two others had been anticipated to arrive at a spot in Vakola, Santacruz east around 8.30pm with the medication consignment which was reportedly being smuggled to a north American country.
The car halted near a tree on the highway the place a fourth accomplice was already ready near his scooter for part an hour.
After exchanging pleasantries, probably the most automobile occupants came out and handed over a blue colored container to the man ready out of doors.
This was the opportune moment when the ready ANC group struck and stuck them red-handed. They additionally recovered 3 extra blue packing containers filled with the banned drugs from the car.
Later, it was discovered to be the very high-priced Fentanyl drug, and an insignificant 25gm is lethal enough to kill a person, police mentioned.
Considered a party drug, with around 20,000 overdose comparable deaths in the USA in 2016, Fentanyl is basically an anaesthetic medication, but made illegally right into a leisure drug, with a lethal mix of heroin or cocaine.
On December 27, the accused had been booked under related sections of the NDPS and IPC acts for the offences, and feature been remanded to police custody till January 1, police mentioned.
The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) swooped on a automobile parked at Shastri Nagar, in Vile Parle and seized around 100 kg of the banned Fentanyl, which is alleged to be 50 instances extra tough than heroin.
According to ANC chief, DCP Shivdeep Lande, following a competent tip-off to a policeman Santosh Bhalekar a couple of supply of Fentanyl, the ANC's Azad Maidan Unit laid a trap on Wednesday.
Four drug peddlers had been stuck with the medication near the carrier highway out of doors the Mumbai Airport in Vile Parle east, mentioned Lande, of the most important luck notched by means of Mumbai Police thus far.
"We have seized 100kg of the banned drugs. It is worth around Rs 10 crore/kg and the total seizure is worth around Rs 1,000 crore," Lande mentioned.
The four accused arrested are -- Salim Ismail Dhola, 52 of Ghodapdev and Chandramani Matamani Tiwari, 41 of Kandivali, and Sandeep Indrajeet Tiwari and Ghanshyam Ramraj Saroj, each from Nala Sopara the town within the adjoining Palghar district.
According to the tip-off, Dhola and two others had been anticipated to arrive at a spot in Vakola, Santacruz east around 8.30pm with the medication consignment which was reportedly being smuggled to a north American country.
The car halted near a tree on the highway the place a fourth accomplice was already ready near his scooter for part an hour.
After exchanging pleasantries, probably the most automobile occupants came out and handed over a blue colored container to the man ready out of doors.
This was the opportune moment when the ready ANC group struck and stuck them red-handed. They additionally recovered 3 extra blue packing containers filled with the banned drugs from the car.
Later, it was discovered to be the very high-priced Fentanyl drug, and an insignificant 25gm is lethal enough to kill a person, police mentioned.
Considered a party drug, with around 20,000 overdose comparable deaths in the USA in 2016, Fentanyl is basically an anaesthetic medication, but made illegally right into a leisure drug, with a lethal mix of heroin or cocaine.
On December 27, the accused had been booked under related sections of the NDPS and IPC acts for the offences, and feature been remanded to police custody till January 1, police mentioned.
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