Pune to London via Delhi — how ‘routine’ tip-off led to 'biggest ever' Meow Meow drug seizure in India

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New Delhi: For the Pune City Police Crime Branch, it was a fairly routine tip-off about a banned substance, until it wasnt..

The Crime Branch has so far seized 1,700 kg of premium quality MD carrying a street value of approximately Rs 3,200 crore..

Based on the initial input, we gathered further information on different locations where Mephedrone was being manufactured and stored and our teams carried out search operations to seize the banned substance and arrest the accused, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar told ThePrint...

Police officers probing the case said as soon as the they received the tip-off from a constable, a team was constituted that arrested Vaibhav alias Pintya Bharat Mane (42) and Ajay Amarnath Karosiya (35), who was driving the car from which they recovered nearly 1.75 kg of MD Monday.After the registration of an FIR, the duo was interrogated about the source of the seized Mephedrone and the route on which it was being transported...

Another Crime Branch officer told ThePrint that the unit seized approximately 52 kg of the banned substance from godowns near Shaikhs residence in Punes Vishrantwadi...

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