Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Crime Branch of Indore police busted a major drug racket on July 6 and arrested four people including a woman from Mumbai for supplying MDMA drugs in the city and other states. It has been revealed that apart from Riya Chakraborty and late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the accused in the case are said to have links with drug suppliers from Dubai, Afghanistan and Africa. The Crime Branch has so far arrested 33 people in connection with the case. The arrested identified as Salim Chaudhary, Zubair, Anwar Lala, and Mehjabeen Sheikh alias 'Papa' alias 'Baji' from Mumbai will remain in police custody till July 12.
During the interrogation, it was revealed that the racket's mastermind, Mehjabeen, used to supply huge consignments of drugs globally through the darknet. Police are also extracting details of her bank accounts, passport, mobile sims, assets and electronic gadgets. Police have also got clues that the accused have bought MDMA drugs and Creta Mine cocaine worth about 40 crores from Indore. These drugs were then supplied and transported in packets of medicines to cities like Mumbai and Delhi. For this, Mehjabeen had trapped many doctors and pharmacists. It was also revealed that the peddlers would mostly talk to their customers over WhatsApp and other internet-based applications and would use Bangladeshi sims to hoodwink police.
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"The woman used to frequently travel to Arab nations. We are scanning her contacts and her properties are being investigated. A joint operation with ED and Income Tax Department has been launched. We are trying to ascertain her possible link with the D-company," said Indore DIG Manish Kapooria.
According to the information, when Mehjabeen came to Mumbai for the first time, she worked in a dance bar in the city. During this time, she came in contact with many high-profile people. She then used to supply drugs in rave and kitty parties in Mumbai.
Anwar Lala, another accused in the case, used to supply drugs to Chintu Pathan (arrested in the Sushant Singh case) and Faizal (arrested earlier). Chintu Pathan was in touch with film actress Rhea Chakraborty and actor Sushant Singh. Salim, another accused had contacts with some officers of Mumbai police following which he had Covid-19 pass and would often travel to Indore for drugs delivery.
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The first arrest in the case was made in January 2021 when Indore Crime Branch arrested Hyderabad's Ved Prakash and his driver Mangi Venkatesh. Police got major leads in the case from Ved Prakash, who had come to deliver drugs to Dinesh Agarwal, Akshay Agarwal and Raees-ud-din of Indore. Raees would supply drugs to Chiman Aggarwal and Mohammad Sardar Khan of Mandsaur, Razzaq Ahmed and Khurshid alias Kundi Baba from Rajasthan, Gulam Haider from Gujarat, and several more criminals from Mumbai including Salim Choudhary, Zubair, Anwar and Mahjabeen.
