On Tuesday, ATS, Juhu, exposed a drug racket by arresting one Sohel Yusuf Memon with contraband of 5.65 kg of Mephedrone (MD), valued at Rs. 2.53 crore in the international market. Investigation revealed that Memon had procured the MD from the drug trafficker, Niranjan Shah, who was Mehta's associate
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A drug trafficker, who was once an associate of late stock market scamster Harshad Mehta, was arrested by the Anti-terrorism Squad, Juhu, from New Delhi’s Munirka area on Tuesday, stated a press release.
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On Tuesday, ATS, Juhu, exposed a drug racket by arresting one Sohel Yusuf Memon with contraband of 5.65 kg of Mephedrone (MD), valued at Rs. 2.53 crore in the international market. Investigation revealed that Memon had procured the MD from the drug trafficker, Niranjan Shah.
Further probe revealed that Shah was a known drug trafficker on the record of various police stations in Mumbai, Delhi, Anti-Narcotics Cell, Mumbai, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), New Delhi and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). It was also found that the accused was an associate of Harshad Mehta, the main accused in the huge shares’ scam of the 90s. He was also an accused on the record of the Economics Offences Wing, Mumbai.
The Juhu Unit of ATS was continuously trying to trace and arrest the wanted accused. However, the accused had fled from the city and was evading arrest by constantly changing his location across various states, viz. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. He was also constantly changing his looks. It had thus become a great challenge to trace and arrest the wanted accused, added the press release.
However, the ATS, Juhu unit traced the accused in Munirka village, Delhi where he was staying, disguised as a poor man in a single room hired on someone else’s name, and nabbed him in a covert operation .
Shah was produce before the court on Wednesday and was remanded to ATS custody till August 25.
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