Four held with sex-boosting party drug MD worth Rs10L smuggled from Mumbai

Nagpur: In a raid on Saturday, a consignment of 256 gms of Mephedrone (MD) drugs worth around Rs10.24 lakh was seized from a peddler having links with Mumbai-based inter-state dealers. While four persons were arrested, three are on the run.
MD, a party drug and sex enhancer, has been in high demand in the city, especially among youngsters. Mumbai-based dealers like Amir Khan Atik Khan are the main suppliers to the city’s narcotics networks.
Earlier, city police chief Amitesh Kumar had issued a strict warning to the crime branch to crack down on narcotic dealers and bust their dens.
A special team from the crime branch, which deals with narcotics cases, had laid a trap and nabbed Phoolsingh Patti from Vaidyanath Chowk where he had gone to collect a parcel from a bus which had come from Mumbai.
Patti was directed to reach the spot by Mumbai-based dealer Amir Khan Atik Khan. It’s learnt that Patti was sent to collect the consignment on behalf of Yash Punyani and Mohd Amir Malik.
Punyani had sent Prashant Sute to collect his consignment from Patti. Sute too landed in the police trap set up by senior inspector Sarthak Nehete and his team comprising naik constable Rajesh Deshmukh, constable Nitin Mishra and others.
Later, the police also netted Mohd Asif who worked for Malik and Azhar Patel from a place near Mayo Hospital where he had come to collect MD from Patti.
“The MD racketeers started bringing narcotics from Mumbai via busses in small packets,” said Nehete, who worked on the inputs under the supervision of ACP Sudhir Nandanwar, DCP Gajanan Rajmane and additional CP Sunil Phulari.
Last week, Nehete’s team had nabbed Patel’s younger brother Sohail and also seized MD.
Patti, Sute, Patel and Asif were produced before the court which remanded them in police custody till December 3.