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Palghar: The Mumbai police has busted a drug manufacturing factory with international ramifications in the Vasai tehsil of Palghar district neighbouring Mumbai on Sunday.
Five persons have been arrested and mephedrone aka MD and raw materials to the tune of over Rs 13 crore was seized.
The operation was carried out of Zone 6 Anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police and Tilak Nagar police station, which busted the factory at the
Rasheed Compound in Pelhar in Nalasopara off the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway in Vasai tehsil.
During the raid, police seized around 7 kilograms of MD drugs along with a large quantity of chemicals and raw materials used in drug production. The seized material is estimated to be worth several crores of rupees.
The investigations started after the Mumbai police following the recovery of 57 grams of mephedrone and the arrest of a man earlier this month in the Chembur area.