Anti Narcotics Cell of Pune Police has arrested an alleged drug smuggler from Pune police station space and seized Mephedrone, also referred to as Meo Mew, value Rs 2 lakh. The police have began probing the availability and distribution chain of the smuggler.
A workforce of Anti-Narcotics Cell from the Crime Branch of Pune Police acquired details about a peddler, who was promoting banned medicine within the Pune Railway Station space and the bus stand positioned subsequent to it. A lure was laid within the early hours of Tuesday and a suspect, recognized as Irshad Iqbal Sayyed (42), a resident of Yerwada, was taken into custody round 1 am.
The police workforce recovered 25 grams of mephedrone, an digital weighing scale, some money, a cell phone and a two-wheeler, value about Rs 2 lakh, from the unlawful market. After preliminary verification that the confiscated substance was mephedrone, the person was arrested. A case has been registered towards him underneath the supply of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in an offense registered at Bundgarden police station.
SAIL Inspector Vinayak Gaikwad stated, “We are additionally checking the previous information of the arrested suspect and his potential accomplices. She has instructed us that she has procured medicine from Mumbai and was smuggling in Pune. We are probing his provide and distribution chain.” The accused has been despatched to police custody.
Mephedrone, also referred to as Meow Mew or While Magic, is a synthetically produced stimulant of the amphetamine and cathinone class. Till early 2010, the drug was not included within the record of banned substances underneath the NDPS Act. But a number of seizures of the drug in massive portions and rising incidences of its use as a drug in main cities prompted authorities so as to add it to the record in 2015.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
