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Mumbai Police arrests two Nigerian nationals with drugs worth Rs 2.90 cr

Updated on: 25 August,2022 06:09 PM IST  |  Mumbai
mid-day online correspondent |

Acting on a specific tip off, a team of the Bandra unit of Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti Narcotics Cell held the two near a power station on the highway leading to Panvel at around 1:30am, an official said.

Mumbai Police arrests two Nigerian nationals with drugs worth Rs 2.90 cr

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Mumbai Police on Thursday nabbed two Nigerian nationals from Mankhurd area and have sezied mephedrone worth Rs 2.90 crore, a police official said.


Acting on a specific tip off, a team of the Bandra unit of Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti Narcotics Cell held the two near a power station on the highway leading to Panvel at around 1:30am, said.


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"We seized 1.4 kilograms of mephedrone worth Rs 2.90 crore. One of the arrested Nigerian nationals is also allegedly involved in a murder in Tulinj in Palghar in 2016," official told the PTI.

A team is working on unravelling their peddling network and it is suspected that they are part of a gang, ANC Deputy Commissioner of Police Datta Nalawade said. 

(with PTI inputs) 

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