This story is from October 19, 2019

Nashik: Two arrested for possessing mephedrone drug worth Rs 38,000

The city police arrested two people for possessing four grams of mephedrone drug worth Rs 38,100 on Wednesday.
Nashik: Two arrested for possessing mephedrone drug worth Rs 38,000
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NASHIK: The city police arrested two people for possessing four grams of mephedrone drug worth Rs 38,100 on Wednesday.
The arrested suspects are identified as Sohail Pathan (21) and Nawaz Sayyad (19) both residents of Bhadrkali and Mumbai Naka respectively. The duo were arrested on a tip off that they were coming to sell the drug in the Mumbai Naka area. They were booked under various sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrophic substances (NDPS).

Senior officials of the crime branch said that on the instructions of Commissioner of police Vishwas Nangre Patil, the police have been keeping a close watch on the illegal sale of liquor and drugs in the city. They said that during their routine check-up they got a information that some college students had started using mephedrone drug.
Subsequently, the police began checking on drug addicts in the college areas and got information about one of them. Acting on the information, they police laid a trap in the Pramod Mahajan garden on the same day and picked up one drug addict.
After further investigations, he informed that the drugs were sourced to the duo after which the police laid a trap and arrested them. The two suspects were arrested when they came to Mico Circle to sell the drugs.
PI Sitaram Kolhe of the Central unit of the Crime Branch who arrested the duo said that Pathan, is a labourer by profession and Sayyad has a small business. They were produced before a city court on Thursday and remanded to two days police custody till Saturday.
Kolhe said that this kind of trend is curbed before it takes a huge form and a large number of college students get addicted to this drug. Mephedrone is a psychoactive drug that temporarily enhances mental and physical function.
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