Thane: Plot To Start Drug Factory Foiled

Thane, 22nd March 2023: The Thane Police have foiled a plot to set up a drug manufacturing factory called MD in the Lotte Industrial Area of Ratnagiri. In this case, the police have arrested seven people, including Abhishek Kuntal, the main accused. About eight months ago, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) found a drug factory in Haryana. Police informed that Abhishek Kuntal was absconding in this case too.

The names of the arrested accused are Jitendra Chavan (33), Sachin Chavan (38), Dinesh Kodamoor (37), Sallahuddin Sheikh (41), Abhishek Kuntal (54), Nafees Pathan (33) and Mubbshir Matvankar (38). About a month and a half ago, the anti-narcotics squad of Thane police had detained and arrested both Jitendra and Sachin, who had come to sell drugs. The police found 63 grams of MD with them. When they were interrogated, it was revealed that they bought these drugs from Dinesh Kodamoor. Police arrested him from Digha. 54 grams of drugs were seized from him. It was revealed that he got these drugs from Sheikh.

Sheikh was taking MD through Abhishek. So the police detained and arrested both.

When the police interrogated them, they found they had hatched a conspiracy to manufacture narcotics in the Lote MIDC area of Khed through some accomplices. The conspiracy was foiled when they were arrested by the police. After the arrest of Abhishek, the police arrested both Nafees and Mubbshir. In this case, the police confiscated art worth a total of 14 lakh 18 thousand rupees.

Abhishek has completed his education in Information Technology. When the police conducted a technical analysis of his mobile phone, it was found that he was in touch with some drug smugglers from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Hyderabad. In 2022, a drug manufacturing factory was set up in Haryana. At that time the factory was destroyed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). There, the department seized drugs worth Rs 133 crore. Abhishek was absconding in this case.