Less than a week since a meth lab busted in Chennai – cue those famous TV show ‘Breaking Bad’ references – identical drama unfolded in the capital city region. Cops broke open a production centre in the Kasana industrial area of UP’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district, and seized 95kg of the drug in all – both solid and liquid form, besides chemicals like acetone and red phosphor.
The narcotics were produced for sale in India in the meth lab and elsewhere, police said; people involved in this racket included members of a Mexican drug cartel known as Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG. The CJNG took its start as a split-off of the Milenio Cartel, considered one of Mexico’s most dangerous; CJNG recruits who fail their training end up being cannibalised, according to Mexico News Daily 2017).
Meth Lab Busted by Delhi Police
It is known that the joint drug op had a presence all across Delhi and the national capital region.
How Delhi-Mexico Drug Cartel Was Formed? (Meth Lab Busted)
In the Meth Lab busted by Delhi Police, Preliminary inquiries indicate that a Delhi-based businessman, and, worryingly, a warden from the city’s Tihar Jail, were also part of this operation; the businessman, who has not been named yet, had been arrested by Revenue Department officials in an earlier drugs-related case.
The two met when the businessman was incarcerated in Tihar Jail, and this plan was hatched there. They roped in a Mumbai-based chemist for manufacturing and ‘quality control’ was outsourced to the Mexicans; a cartel member was sent to Delhi.
The businessman and the jail warden had been arrested; it wasn’t known yet if the other cartel member had also been taken in. There was a fourth, identified as yet: that person, too, has been apprehended. They are currently all in police custody.
A fifth has been apprehended – another associate of the businessman; he hails from Rajouri Garden in Delhi
Details such as finances and assets are now being worked out.
India’s Meth, Synthetic Drugs Crisis
This is the sixth drug bust by the Narcotics Control Bureau this year alone.
The other five were in Gandhinagar and Amreli in Gujarat, Jodhpur and Sirohi in Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. The Bhopal operation yielded over 900 kg of mephedrone in solid and liquid forms, as well a frightening 7,000 kg of various chemicals and drug-making machinery.
The Chennai drugs operation – run by a chemistry student who began by peddling meth – was a ‘start-up’; 245 grams was recovered, but cops there believe it could be linked to a larger network.
Another operation was busted in Assam last week; a joint op between Assamese and Manipuri police seized heroin valued at ₹ 6 crore and arrested two people.
In another independent operation, Gujarat Police recovered ₹ 250 crore worth of drugs from Bharuch district, and detained a local businessman whose company had already produced drugs worth ₹ 5,000 crore in earlier raids.
Regarding the number of drug busts especially laboratories involved in producing synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine and mephedrone it shows how drug mafias are opting for establishing small laboratories in industrial zone to avoid police. Smaller operations enable them to minimize for instance; waste by products and hazardous emissions.
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