The Sakinaka police have arrested Amir Shaikh, a drug dealer who allegedly was hand in glove with Pune drug lord Lalit Patil. “His name popped up during Lalit Patil’s interrogation. We acted swiftly and apprehended him from Kurla late at night on October 25,” said a police officer. Shaikh’s is the 17th arrest made by the police as they busted R300 crore mephedrone (MD) drug manufacturing company in Nashik.

According to the police, Amir Shaikh, 32, is a “top drug dealer” in the city. He procured huge amounts of drugs from Lalit Patil and then distributed the contraband in various parts of the city, based on the orders. The police suspect that he also supplied financial aid to the Patil brothers to run the drug factory in Nashik.