India, May 2 -- The Navi Mumbai police have arrested an employee of the postal department in Mumbai from Madhya Pradesh for allegedly tracking the movement of parcels of hydroponic weed smuggled into India from Thailand and United States and ensuring they were despatched to desired locations. This has taken the number of arrests in connection with the April 14 drug bust at Navi Mumbai to 11, including two police constables, a former hockey player and a Customs officer.

The special investigation team probing the case suspects the accused are all part of an international cartel operated by the sons of builder Gurunath Chichkar, who recently died by suicide.

"The SIT has found that the cartel is operated from Thailand and US, either by Nav...