15 October,2020 03:02 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
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Mumbai Police seized 1.2 kg of heroin worth around Rs 2.4 crore from a peddler in Dharavi, said an official of the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC), Ghatkopar on Thursday.
The peddler, identified as Manzar D. Shaikh, 47, is a resident of Dharavi.
Following a tip-off about a drug consignment delivery, an ANC team lay in wait for the peddler at the 60-feet road in Dharavi on Wednesday afternoon.
"When the suspected peddler arrived to sell the drugs to other peddlers or customers in the area , he was nabbed with the packet containing 1.2 kg of heroin, estimated to be worth around Rs 2.4 crore in the international market," said Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Milind Bharambe.
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Police said that the accused had been earlier caught in 2018 by the ANC Ghatkopar unit in a similar drug peddling case.
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