Overview
- In Satara’s Savari village, Mumbai Crime Branch Unit-7 dismantled a makeshift cowshed lab, seizing 7.5 kg of MD, about 38 kg of liquid MD and precursors valued around ₹115 crore, with some reports putting the estimate at ₹195 crore.
- Arrests in the Satara case vary by account from three picked up on-site to seven held overall, with one suspect reported absconding.
- The MBVV Anti-Narcotics Cell uncovered an MD factory in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, recovering roughly 10 kg of the drug plus chemicals and equipment valued near ₹100 crore, and arrested one person at the unit.
- MBVV officials report 11 arrests so far in their wider case, including a suspect believed linked to the Dawood Ibrahim gang, and say the Rajasthan unit had operated for months with an initial ₹100 crore batch already sold and another in preparation.
- Police trace the Satara raid to a 136 g Mulund seizure on October 9 and the Rajasthan action to an October 4 patrol recovery in Thane, while probes continue into interstate links, possible overseas handlers and funding trails, even as Maharashtra Congress demands greater transparency.