Mumbai: NCB seizes mephedrone worth Rs 15 lakh in Mahim, 3 held

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The Narcotics Control Bureau seized 136 gram mephedrone, a banned drug, worth around Rs 15 lakh in Mumbai and arrested three persons in this connection, an NCB official said on Tuesday.

The probe team also nabbed three persons in this connection and they were being questioned, the official said. The accused have been identified as Md Bilal, Shaikh Gulam Gosh and Sehbaz ShahAlam Sheikh. The two accused were working for Sheikh. Bilal and Gosh were arrested from Mahim railway station, said Sameer Wankhede, Zonal Director, NCB, Mumbai zonal unit.

Mephedrone, also known as 'meow meow' or MD, is a synthetic stimulant a psychotropic substance banned under the NDPS Act.

The NCB last month busted a major drug trafficking racket after raiding a mephedrone manufacturing unit in Dongri area of south Mumbai.

It had arrested gangster Parvez Khan alias Chinku Pathan, a henchman of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, following seizure of mephedrone.

The probe agency had also nabbed Arif Bhujwala, who set up the drugs unit in Dongri area here, officials earlier said.

(With inputs from Faizan Khan and agency)