Police received information that several people from Punjab were arriving in Navi Mumbai, renting rooms in lodges, hotels, and hostels, and supplying heroin and opium to local users and drug peddlers. Based on this, five NDPS cases were registered at Kalamboli, APMC, Taloja, CBD Belapur, and NRI police stations

The inspection was led by Praveen Kumar, Managing Director of DFCCIL, and covered a distance of about 102 kilometres from Vaitarna to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Port (JNPT)