Updated On: 02 December, 2021 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
Following sustained pressure by mid-day series and local residents, police contrive to arrest a drug dealer for planting mephedrone in Matunga executive’s home; lawyer says the police have misused their power

Faqrudin Sayyed and Gopal Mooponr were arrested after the drugs and gun were found at the former’s house
The police have made headway into the case where a Matunga resident was allegedly framed by his fiancee’s stalker, and arrested the person who planted the drugs and a loaded gun in his house. mid-day had published a series of reports on the case, after which the cops made the arrest, and the accused has spilt the beans on the stalker, the main accused, who is allegedly on the run.
Dharavi drug peddler Nicolas Pandian alias Nikki is the main accused got the 485 gm mephedrone (MD) and a gun with bullets planted at the house of a Matunga-based sales executive, Faqrudin Sayyed, to stop his wedding, according to the police. Sayyed’s fiancee was being pursued by Pandian who wants to marry her himself. Sayyed was arrested along with his childhood friend Gopal Mooponr who was with him when the police raided his premises.