Chemistry topper, Briton held with Rs 27 cr drugs

  • | Wednesday | 13th June, 2018

In all, the DRI seized 279 kg Ketamine, 140 grams of cocaine , 1.5 kg opium and 7.8 kg of hasish, totally approximately worth Rs 27 crore. Based on further information gathered during the investigation, the DRI than also raided a few places in Goa. MUMBAI: The DRI has busted a ketamine manufacturing racket run by a Chemistry topper and a UK national, and seized drugs worth Rs 27 crore from their hideouts in Jogeshwari, Panvel, Bhiwandi and Goa.The main accused, Rahul Shedge, a topper in chemistry, had been earlier arrested under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotrophic Substance (NDPS) Act in 2009 and 2012. Shedge and Paul have also been arrested. We then raided the factory,” said a source.

MUMBAI: The DRI has busted a ketamine manufacturing racket run by a Chemistry topper and a UK national, and seized drugs worth Rs 27 crore from their hideouts in Jogeshwari, Panvel, Bhiwandi and Goa.The main accused, Rahul Shedge, a topper in chemistry, had been earlier arrested under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotrophic Substance (NDPS) Act in 2009 and 2012. Upon his release from jail, he continued the racket by manufacturing the contraband at Rasaini in Panvel under the banner of a chemical factory.Sources said that following a specific tip-off, the DRI's Mumbai zone unit raided a flat in Oberoi Splendor at Jogeshwari on Monday and seized 33 kgs of brown colour powder suspected to be ketamine. As the field testing kit indicated presence of ketamine in the papers, DRI officials arrested Akshinder Singh Sodhi, a native of Jalander who had taken the flat on rent and was allegedly supplying the drugs in Andheri and Oshiwara areas.“His interrogations led us to Shedge and Anthony Paul, a UK national, and Jai Vijay Industries in Rasaini where the contraband was manufactured. We then raided the factory,” said a source. Based on further information gathered during the investigation, the DRI than also raided a few places in Goa. In all, the DRI seized 279 kg Ketamine, 140 grams of cocaine , 1.5 kg opium and 7.8 kg of hasish, totally approximately worth Rs 27 crore. Shedge and Paul have also been arrested.

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