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

On January 27, 2001, and January 28, 2001, based on specific intelligence, the Narcotics Control Bureau, Mumbai Zonal Unit, had intercepted three accused persons in the area of Belapur and Nerul, Navi Mumbai, and seized multiple types of drugs like Cocaine, LSD in commercial quantities, and Ganja