On Tuesday, November 23, in Maharashtra’s Nanded district, a drugs factory was busted by the Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) wherein an aggregate of 100kgs of drugs was seized, reported news agency ANI.
In the raids that commenced on Monday, November 22, so far, the said amounts of drugs have been seized. Raids were conducted in Nanded, Jalna and Aurangabad districts. Additionally, three people have also been intercepted.
Based on reports, an official from the NCB elaborated on how the operation is presently underway. Therefore, they weren’t divulging information at this point in time.
Later on Tuesday, NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede elaborated on how the NCB Mumbai busted a clandestine drug unit at Nanded district's Kandhar. Herein they seized 111kg of poppy straw, 1.4kg of opium, Rs 1.55 lakhs, 2 grinding machines, used for poppy seed grinding & an E-scale note counting machine on Monday.
Wankhede added that the authority has registered the case as crime no. 99 of 2021 with further operations underway to nab the suppliers.
The NCB, last week, had undertaken an operation in the district of Nanded wherein a truck was intercepted. The truck allegedly ferried 1127 kilograms of marijuana.
The authority then went on to claim that the discussed contraband was from Andhra Pradesh’s Hyderabad. Adding that it was going towards Jalgaon.
Additionally, earlier this month the NCB had seized a large amount of heroin from Mumbai’s Vile Parle. The suspect in the case was earlier absconding with investigations also being conducted.
The NCB has been under the limelight of the media, ever since they arrested Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case. Whilst Khan is presently out on bail, it was reported that the NCB was considering moving Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court bail order to Khan.
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