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Khabri ne vaat laga diya! Informants leave Mumbai cops red-faced
Updated On: 22 April, 2017 02:01 PM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Ojha
<p>Cops, who trusted informers' word when mephedrone was seized, left red-faced in court twice when the substance turned out to be a harmless food additive or some other drug</p>
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While the Mumbai police's indispensable khabri network has helped its personnel crack thousands of cases that otherwise may have gone unsolved, trusting informers in the absence of a drug-testing kit for meow-meow has cost the department two huge cases recently. The court threw out both cases.
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