The Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti-Narcotics Cell on Friday arrested a 59-year-old director of a Gujarat based chemical company identified as Deepak Natwarlal Mehta. Along with Mehta, some customs officials are also under the scanner of the crime branch. Mehta is one of the directors at Sam Fine O Chem Ltd.

Shivdeep Lande DCP ANC said, "We have arrested Mehta for allegedly exporting 400 kilograms of chemical without following government norms and permission. This chemical was used in making a lethal drug called 'Fentanyl' a highly concentrated synthetic opioid similar to morphine."