India, July 29 -- In a Rs.381 crore Mephedrone (MD bust, the Sakinaka police arrested four people and seized 187kg of the synthetic stimulant and its raw materials from a drug manufacturing unit in Mysuru, Karnataka. The unit was a key supplier in Mumbai's MD racket, and was exposed thanks to a lead from a drug peddler in Vasai.

According to the police, they have seized MD worth Rs.390 crore in the past three months. The long-drawn investigation began in April this year when the Sakinaka police arrested three people who were selling drugs in the Kaman area of Vasai east. At the time, the police had seized MD weighing 4 kg 53 grams and worth Rs.8 crore. The main accused in the case, Salim Sheikh alias Salim Langda, 45, was absconding but ...