Mumbai: Cop poses as food delivery agent to nab peddler, seize drugs worth ₹10 lakh

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₹10 lakh in the western suburb of Jogeshwari here, an official said on Sunday. According to details, quoted by Hindustan Times and news agency PTI, the head of the crime branch unit 10 – Inspector Deepak Sawant – donned the uniform of a food delivery agent to apprehend the accused in the SV Road area in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The accused, identified as Faisal Akbar Makhanoja, was nabbed by Sawant and his team after a chase.

The official said that their team recovered 100 gm of mephedrone (MD) worth ₹10 lakh from the accused, adding that a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered. ALSO READ: Bomb scare in Mumbai! Police receive threat of blast ahead of New Year, investigation underway Apart from this, Mumbai's Crime Branch Unit 11 also arrested two drug peddlers from the Santosh Nagar area and recovered drugs worth ₹12 lakh from them. Police registered a case against accused Akshay Jagtap and Iqbal Anwar Hussain under the NDPS Act.

"Mumbai's Crime Branch Unit 11 arrested two drug peddlers from the Santosh Nagar area and recovered drugs worth ₹12 lakh from them. Police registered a case against accused Akshay Jagtap and Iqbal Anwar Hussain under the NDPS Act," said Mumbai Police. In another case, Mumbai Police nabbed a 62-year-old man – wanted in a murder case and believed to be dead – after 31 years from the Nalasopara area in the neighbouring Palghar district.