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In a major narcotic raid in the coastal village of Calangute, police seized synthetic and manufactured drugs worth Rs 11 lakh and took a Nigerian into custody on Sunday.
The accused Frank (32), a Nigerian national but residing in Calangute was arrested after he was found carrying drugs such as MDMA, Morphine, Amphetamine, Charas, LSD etc, police said.
Calangute PI, Jivba Dalvi informed that police had received specific inputs that a Nigerian would come at an internal road near at Porbowado, Calangute to supply a consignment to prospective customer.
No sooner the accused arrived at the spot on a scooter, a police team which lay in wait pounced on him and rounded him.
During interrogation the accused spilled the beans that he was in possession of narcotic substances.
On a personal search police found a variety of drugs in his possession.
The total drugs seized from his possession were MDMA (alpha-dimethyl methylene) worth Rs 78,000, Morphine worth Rs 40,000, Amphetamine worth Rs 72,000, Charas worth Rs 6,39,000, LSD (didehydro-N methylergoline) papers worth Rs 2,30,000 and Ganja worth Rs 46,000 which totaled to Rs 11,05,000 approximately in the
international market.
A Yamaha scooter bearing no GA-03-AJ-0845 was also seized in the raid.
An offence under section 20(b)(ii)(A) 20(b)(ii)(B), 21(a), 22(b) and 22(c) of NDPS Act, 1985 has been registered for possession of small, variable and commercial quantity of drugs on the accused.
Police are verifying if he has been involved in any more of such crimes.
The investigation team comprised of PI Jivba Dalvi, PSI Jatin Potdar, PSI Mahesh Naik, PSI Sitaram Malik, PSI Prajit Mandrekar, Police Constables Shreyas Sakhalkar, Pandurang Samant, Laximan Patekar and other staff.
