The Navi Mumbai Police on Friday arrested 16 foreign nationals and seized drugs worth R1 crore from a house in Kharghar. The drug seized in the raid included heroine, cannabis and methaqualone. All the arrested accused were living without any valid passports and had come to collect a consignment to distribute on a smaller scale during new year parties, police officials said.

Vijay Shinge, police sub-inspector attached to the Anti-Narcotics Cell, first received a tip off about a drug peddler named Kingsley arriving at a row house at Sector 12, Kharghar on Friday to distribute drugs to other peddlers. The information was relayed to superiors, and a trap was laid near the row house. Around 7.45 pm, the police noticed five men and two women coming out of the house.