Mumbai The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) team has raided MD Drug Factory, which was running under the guise of a mobile poultry farm in Satara district of Maharashtra, and seized drugs worth Rs 55 crore and arrested five people.
DRI had given the code name of this secret operation ‘Operation Sahyadri Checkmate’. The officer investigating this case said on Monday that DRI’s Pune unit had received confidential information about a drug factory being run in a village named Pachputewadi in Karad tehsil of Satara.
Based on this information, the DRI team, which included three IPS officers. This company was raided in complete secrecy on Friday night and the raid continued till late Saturday night. No information about this raid was given to the local police.
During this action, the DRI team recovered 11.848 kg of drugs in liquid form, 9.326 kg in semi-liquid form and 738 grams of drugs in crystalline form from the spot. Apart from this, 71.5 kg raw material was also found from which 15 kg more Mephedrone could be made.
The official said the total value of the seized drugs was estimated at Rs 55 crore. Mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant commonly known as a party drug, poses serious health risks. He said three people, including the drug maker or “cook”, the “financier-consignor” and the poultry farm owner, were arrested on the spot.
It was revealed that the owner of the prepared MD form had hidden it in his house, which has also been confiscated. After this, two people who had come to take delivery of the drug manufactured here, were arrested near an old Octroi toll post located in a dense forest area in Satara itself.
Of the five arrested, four had previous cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act or were being tried under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA).
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