Drugs Worth Over ₹ 1,800 Crore Seized From Factory Near Bhopal, 2 Arrested

New Delhi/Bhopal: 

In a major crackdown, a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Gujarat has uncovered a massive drug manufacturing racket in Bagroda Industrial Area, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Officials recovered mephedrone (MD) drugs worth approximately ₹ 1,800 crore during the raid, which is being described as one of the biggest seizures of its kind.

The operation, which is still going on, took place inside a factory operating within a shed measuring around 2,500 square yards. Gujarat ATS officials, arriving in vehicles without number plates, carried out the raid in collaboration with the NCB. Two individuals, identified as key suspects, have been arrested.

Preliminary interrogation revealed that Sanyal Prakash Bane was previously arrested in 2017 in a similar MD drug case by the police in Amboli in Mumbai. After serving five years in prison, he te