India, Feb. 17 -- Pune police have busted an inter-state mephedrone (MD) trafficking racket with links extending to Rajasthan, and seized drugs and related assets worth Rs.4.27 crore and arrested six persons till date.

Deputy commissioner of police (Zone IV) Somay Munde said on Monday that the operation, which was ongoing till February 15, had begun on February 3, soon after a police patrol intercepted two suspects near EON Phase-2 in Kharadi in the wee hours and seized 27 grams of mephedrone from them.

The arrested accused were identified as Motisingh Shravan Singh Rajpurohit and Harish Sujana Ramdevasi, both natives of Rajasthan. During their interrogation, police learned that they had been supplying MD in Pune for nearly a year.

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