Overview
- Rajasthan’s Barmer police, working with NCB Jodhpur, seized 39.777 kg of ready MD and 99.931 kg of chemicals from a house converted into a lab, arresting the owner as alleged mastermind Motaram Jat escaped.
- Delhi Police’s Operation Clean Sweep-2 raided about 50 locations across Dwarka on December 19–20, arresting nine people, including a Nigerian national, and seizing 33.244 kg of cannabis, 62 grams of amphetamine, illicit liquor, a knife and Rs 3.64 lakh.
- Mumbai-area units reported key arrests of Nigerian nationals: Navi Mumbai’s ANTF held Aniehe Kingsley Chinedu after recovering mephedrone and MDMA worth over ₹21 lakh, while MBVV Crime Branch caught fugitive Henry Uchenna Uwakwe with amphetamine worth about ₹56.12 lakh tied to a ₹5.6 crore MD case.
- Thane police said they disrupted an inter-state ganja network that sourced from Odisha, seizing 35 kg of contraband and a country-made pistol and booking suspects under MCOCA and NDPS provisions.
- A special NDPS court sentenced two pharmacists to 20 years for a 2017 mephedrone manufacturing case, signaling stiff penalties alongside ongoing raids and seizures.