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Surat, Nov 12 (PTI) The police on Friday arrested a man who had allegedly set up a laboratory to manufacture the banned drug methamphetamine (meth) at his office in Sarthana area of Gujarat"s Surat city, an official said.
The arrest has come days after the Surat police had nabbed one Pravin Bishnoi, a native of Jalore in Rajasthan, with 58 gm of meth worth Rs 5.58 lakh.
Investigations have revealed that Bishnoi had come to Surat on November 9 to deliver the contraband to one Jaimin Savani in Sarthana, Surat commissioner of police Ajay Tomar said.
"We nabbed Savani from his native place in Bhavnagar district and brought him here.
He confessed that he had become a drug addict and had started selling narcotics to make money.
Since he found the drug trade lucrative, he decided to manufacture methamphetamine and had set up a mini laboratory in his office," the official said.