Drug cartel: 26-year-old mechanical engineer held with heroin in Mumbai

The police have found that the accused has a diploma in mechanical engineering with 84% marks. Pic/Mid-day

A 26-year-old Diploma Mechanical Engineer has been arrested by the Kandivali Unit of the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) on Saturday after he was found with 325 grams of heroin worth Rs 1,30,040.00 in the international market. The cops have found that after passing engineering, he has worked in Gurgaon and Qatar, and since the last three years, he has been running OLA cabs in Mumbai.

According to ANC, in 2020, while driving OLA during the lockdown, he met one passenger who asked him to deliver a consignment from Mira Bhayander to Mumbai and paid him 5000 for one trip. He took that opportunity and started earning huge amounts on a daily basis. "He later joined the cartel and became their driver using his OLA cab." An officer said

The police found that he has good ratings on OLA, and they sought details of the passengers and where he had travelled to find the absconding accused in the case.

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The police have found that he has a diploma in mechanical engineering with 84% marks and has worked in Gurgaon with an automobile company. He went to Qatar in 2017 when a lot of work was going on in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022 and worked with a multinational company there. He returned from Qatar in 2019 and started running OLA, but later joined a drug syndicate after meeting one passenger and has been supplying drugs in the city since then.

"We are working on the case to catch another accused; it appears that it's a syndicate that supplies drugs in the city," Said Lakhmi Gautam, joint commissioner of crime, Mumbai Police