Mumbai Police arrested another accused in the Lalit Patil drug case, an official said on Friday. According to the police, the accused, who is a resident of Kurla, used to supply drugs in Mumbai, taking them from Lalit Patil and had also helped him establish a mephedrone (MD) drug factory in Nashik.
Earlier on October 19, Pune Police arrested two women from Nashik in connection with the drug mafia Lalit Patil case and produced them before the Pune Sessions Court, which sent them to police custody till October 23. Officials reported on Wednesday that Mumbai Police had seized 20 kg of mephedrone (MD) from a waterway in Nashik that Sachin Wagh, a suspected drug mafia member, allegedly dumped.
A team from the Saki Naka police in Mumbai carried out a search operation to recover the drug packets in the multi-crore mephedrone drug racket seizure case. According to the police, Wagh allegedly dumped the seized drugs, which have a value of around Rs 40 crore, into the Girna river in the Nashik district’s Deola taluka.
Earlier on October 23, Mumbai’s Andheri Court extended drug mafia member Lalit Patil’s police custody till October 27, reported ANI. Patil was arrested last week from Chennai after his escape on October 2 from Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital. The Pimpri-Chinchwad police in 2020 busted a multi-million dollar mephedrone racket, and Lalit Patil was allegedly responsible.
With Patil’s arrest, the Police busted a gang of drug manufacturers and sellers who sold drugs after manufacturing it in a factory camouflaged as a pharmaceutical unit.
