KALYAN: The Kalyan unit of the Thane police Crime Department on Friday arrested a person and seized 3kg mephedrone or MD price ₹4.5 crore from his grocery retailer at Nevali Naka in Ambernath Taluka.
The crime department officers mentioned that the arrested accused, recognized as Rajesh Kumar Premchand Tiwari, 41, who runs the Gayatri Kirana retailer and lived along with his spouse and youngsters for a number of years at Newali Naka in Ambernath. Police have additionally arrested yet another accused, recognized as Shailendra Rakesh Ahirwar.
The police performed a raid at a grocery retailer following a tip-off from a dependable supply, in response to official stories. The knowledge instructed {that a} shopkeeper on the Kirana store was concerned in drug gross sales. Performing on directions from a senior officer, Senior Inspector Naresh Pawar of the Kalyan Crime Department fashioned a crew and executed the raid on Could 3. Through the operation, they seized 3.6 kg of mephedrone valued at roughly ₹4.5 crore.
The criticism was filed by Goraksh Shekde, a police constable from the Crime Department. A case was registered towards the accused beneath numerous sections of the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act on the Hill-line police station.
Naresh Pawar, the senior police inspector of the Kalyan Crime Department, mentioned, “The accused, Tiwari, was produced in courtroom and remanded into police custody till Could 7. Ahirwar will likely be introduced earlier than the courtroom on Sunday, and we are going to request his police custody remand from the courtroom.”
Pawar additional added that they’re endeavoring to establish from Tiwari the supply of this contraband and the period of this illicit enterprise working from the kirana store. He expressed hope that they might reach disrupting the drug syndicate chain.
