Mumbai, Oct. 23 -- The Mumbai crime branch arrested a Gulf country-based alleged handler, Mohammed Salim Sheikh, an absconding accused in a major drug trafficking case, after he was deported from Dubai, police said here today.
According to officials, the accused was absconding in connection with the Salim Dola drug trafficking case.
Sheikh, identified as one of the key coordinators operating from abroad alongside Salim Dola, is accused of managing drug operations linked to a major MD-manufacturing network in Maharashtra.
He was involved in overseeing the supply chain for a large mephedrone (MD) production unit in Sangli, where raw materials imported through a UAE-based chemical supplier were processed into the synthetic drug, an official...