MUMBAI: In one of the most biggest narcotic seizures of the year, the city police have busted a significant international drug peddling racket with the arrest of four persons and confiscated 100 kg of fentanyl price Rs 1,000 crore.
Fentanyl is an artificial opioid used as a ache drugs, particularly for most cancers, however it is also made illegally in clandestine labs on the market as a recreational drug. Often blended with heroin or cocaine, or used as an alternative to those, this is a extensively abused substance in america. Every year, there are millions of deaths recorded in america from overdosing on fentanyl.
The Azad Maidan unit of the anti-narcotic cellular (ANC) arrested four persons, Salim Ismail Dhala (52), Chandramani Tiwari (41), Sandeep Tiwari (38) and Dhanshyam Ramraj Saroj (43). "After confirming the authenticity of our informer, we laid a trap at Subhasnagar on the service road at Vakola in Santacruz (east), from where we arrested them with the contraband," an officer stated on condition of anonymity.
Dhala is a driver from Cotton Green, Central Mumbai. In 2013, he were arrested through the Ghatkopar ANC unit for ganja ownership. Sandeep Tiwari, a graduate, works for a non-public corporate and was once arrested with Saroj, his driver, and seized their car, a brand-new Tata Nexon SUV, during which the drug was once discovered.
Chandramani Tiwari has a mobile shop in Thakur village, Kandivli. The police stated they had seized four packing containers every weighing 25 kg from the boot of the silver Nexon. They also seized a Suzuki two-wheeler belonging to Sandeep Tiwari. All the four accused were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Pyschotrophic Substances Act (NDPS). The drug samples were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina. Police officials aware about the investigation stated knowledge had reached them that some other people with a large consignment of fentanyl were likely to export it through misdeclaring it as some chemical compounds.
The police stated tthe four accused were not cooperating within the investigations and had refused to reveal the supply of the fentanyl. "The four accused are known to each other and they have conspired and were planning to hand over this banned chemical to some foreigner who was to take it to the US and a few other countries where there is a huge demand as it is used as a substitute to expensive drugs like cocaine and heroin," a senior police officer stated, also requesting anonymity.
The circle of relatives of one the accused stated he were framed. "My son had called me and said he would be coming late for dinner but when he did not return till morning I started looking for him ," the father of an accused stated. "Around 5am, the police informed us that they had arrested him."
Fentanyl is an artificial opioid used as a ache drugs, particularly for most cancers, however it is also made illegally in clandestine labs on the market as a recreational drug. Often blended with heroin or cocaine, or used as an alternative to those, this is a extensively abused substance in america. Every year, there are millions of deaths recorded in america from overdosing on fentanyl.
The Azad Maidan unit of the anti-narcotic cellular (ANC) arrested four persons, Salim Ismail Dhala (52), Chandramani Tiwari (41), Sandeep Tiwari (38) and Dhanshyam Ramraj Saroj (43). "After confirming the authenticity of our informer, we laid a trap at Subhasnagar on the service road at Vakola in Santacruz (east), from where we arrested them with the contraband," an officer stated on condition of anonymity.
Dhala is a driver from Cotton Green, Central Mumbai. In 2013, he were arrested through the Ghatkopar ANC unit for ganja ownership. Sandeep Tiwari, a graduate, works for a non-public corporate and was once arrested with Saroj, his driver, and seized their car, a brand-new Tata Nexon SUV, during which the drug was once discovered.
Chandramani Tiwari has a mobile shop in Thakur village, Kandivli. The police stated they had seized four packing containers every weighing 25 kg from the boot of the silver Nexon. They also seized a Suzuki two-wheeler belonging to Sandeep Tiwari. All the four accused were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Pyschotrophic Substances Act (NDPS). The drug samples were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina. Police officials aware about the investigation stated knowledge had reached them that some other people with a large consignment of fentanyl were likely to export it through misdeclaring it as some chemical compounds.
The police stated tthe four accused were not cooperating within the investigations and had refused to reveal the supply of the fentanyl. "The four accused are known to each other and they have conspired and were planning to hand over this banned chemical to some foreigner who was to take it to the US and a few other countries where there is a huge demand as it is used as a substitute to expensive drugs like cocaine and heroin," a senior police officer stated, also requesting anonymity.
The circle of relatives of one the accused stated he were framed. "My son had called me and said he would be coming late for dinner but when he did not return till morning I started looking for him ," the father of an accused stated. "Around 5am, the police informed us that they had arrested him."
Rs 1,000 crore opioid seized from car in Vakola
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