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Pune police arrest man with MD worth ₹27 lakh
PUNE The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old man from Mumbra in Thane district and seized 272 gm of cosmetic drug mephedrone (MD) worth ₹27 lakh from him
PUNE The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old man from Mumbra in Thane district and seized 272 gm of cosmetic drug mephedrone (MD) worth ₹27 lakh from him.
Head constable Namdev Wadekar of the anti-arms squad lodged an FIR ar Talegaon MIDC police station against the accused, who has been indentified as Nadeem Inayat Patel (33), a native of Mumbra, but residing in Talegaon for the past few years.
Acting on a tip-off received by constable Wadekar, a trap was laid near Sant Tukaram Maharaj Kamani on the way to Bhandaradongar on Tuesday and Patel was intercepted there .He had put up a sticker of ‘PRESS’ on his car, according to police.
A search led to the recovery of the MD worth ₹27 lakh. The police have also seized his car worth ₹5 lakh, two mobile phones and ₹16,700 cash from his possession.
The action was taken under the guidance of police commissioner Krishna Prakash, DCP Kakasaheb Dole, ACPs Prashant Amrutkar and Padmakar Ghanwat.
The crime branch team included police inspector Rajendra Nikalje, PSI Bharat Gosavi, ASI Lakhankumar Wavhale, Sham Shinde; head constables Chandrakant Gawari, Pritam Wagh, Namdev Wadekar, Wasim Shaikh; constables Pravin Muluk and Mohsin Attar.
Police inspector Rajendra Nikalje said that the accused has been remanded into custody and is being interrogated for his involvement in drug-related crimes in PCMC and Pune city region.
