The Gujarat police have arrested a 31-year-old peddler who is suspected of having supplied drugs to Aftab Poonawala at his Vasai home. Sources said the drug seller, Faisal Abdul Momin, is a resident of the Muslim Committee building at Dindayal Nagar in Vasai West, and Poonawala was a frequent visitor to the area as he has friends from the same circle. Delhi police sources have said that Poonawala has confessed to doing drugs regularly. 

A Gujarat Crime Branch officer said Vasai-based Faisal had been supplying drugs to Surat for the past many years. On November 12, the police in Surat raided two places at Apexa Nagar Society on Bamreli Road, Pandesara, and seized 1.79 kg  and 2.17 kg of mephedrone worth about R3.5 crore. Later, they arrested two men identified as Aniket Shinde and Sanjaykumar Pal.