Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Mephedrone worth Rs 3.58 crore seized in Mumbai; three held

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Mephedrone worth Rs 3.58 cr seized in Mumbai; three held

Mumbai police have arrested three persons for alleged possession of mephedrone worth Rs 3.58 crore in separate seizures in the city, an official said on Sunday. The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) conducted the seizures over the last two weeks, the official said. On September 3, the ANC`s Kandivali unit apprehended a 22-year-old man with 1.297 kg of mephedrone worth Rs 2.59 crore near the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the western suburb of Borivali, he said. The Azad Maidan unit arrested one accused with 184 gm of contraband worth Rs 36.80 lakh at New Municipal Market in Malad on September 13, while 251 gm of the synthetic drug worth Rs 62.75 lakh was seized from Sion, the official said: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Woman held in drug case in which Mumbai cops invoked MCOCA for first time

A 26-year-old woman wanted in a mephedrone seizure case, the first in which Mumbai police had invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was arrested from Dahisar in northern part of the metropolis, an official said on Sunday. Kaynat Jabbar Shaikh-Qureshi (26) was apprehended by a team of the Anti Narcotics Cell, he added. "Earlier, the ANC`s Bandra unit had arrested Adnan Amir Shaikh with 766 grams of mephedrone. He was was running an organise syndicate. Based on a tip off, Kaynat was held from her sister`s house in Dahisar," the official said: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Pahalgam victims` kin seeking justice but Union govt lets India play Pak, says Sule

NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Sunday said India playing Pakistan in a cricket match after the horrific Pahalgam terror attack was unfortunate. It is the first time the traditional rivals met on the cricket field since the April 22 Pahalgam attack, in which 26 persons were gunned by Pakistan-backed terrorists. India had responded with Operation Sindoor on May 7, inflicting heavy damage to terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK): PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Democracy has suffered huge setback due to delay in Maharashtra local body polls: Jayant Patil

Senior NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil on Sunday said democracy has suffered a "major setback" as elections to local self-government bodies in Maharashtra have not been held for several years. Speaking at a day-long workers` camp of the party in Nashik, held in the presence of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Patil launched a scathing attack on the ruling dispensation: PTI