India, Dec. 16 -- The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police crime branch has busted a mephedrone (MD) manufacturing unit operating from a shed behind a poultry farm in Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan, seizing contraband and equipment worth Rs.100 crore.

According to the police, 11 persons have been arrested so far, including a suspect believed to be associated with the Dawood Ibrahim gang, for manufacturing and peddling the synthetic drug.

MBVV police commissioner Niket Kaushik said that the crime branch police intercepted a vehicle during patrolling on OCtober 4 and held six individuals on suspicion, from whom they recovered 501.6 grams of MD valued at Rs.1 crore, along with eight mobile phones and four mo...