File Photo: Baby Ramesh Patankar
A special NDPS court today allowed Mumbai police to arrest a drug peddler, who is now lodged in a Mumbai jail, in connection with recovery of 12 kilograms of mephedrone drug from a police constable's cupboard at a city police station last month.
"We have got a transfer warrant of drug dealer G Samuels. We will arrest him tomorrow and produce him in the court," DCP and Mumbai police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni said.
So far, Mumbai police have arrested the accused police constable Dharmaraj Kalokhe, woman drug peddler Shashikala Patankar, alias Baby, and her son Satish in this case.
According to police, Baby told them that Samuels, who is now lodged in Arthur Road jail, used to supply Mephedrone to her.
Samuels had been arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau in 2009 for providing support to Arjuna awardee Jagdish Bhola to export drugs to Cambodia. Bhola had been caught with 25kg of methamphetamine from suburban Goregoan.
Head constable Kalokhe, posted at Marine Drive police station, had been arrested on March 9 after 110 kg of mephedrone drug, whose market value runs into "crores of rupees", was seized from his residence in a village under Khandala taluka in Satara district.
The next day, 12 kg mephedrone was seized from Kalokhe's cupboard at the Marine Drive police station here, along with Rs 30,000 cash.
After a thorough interrogation by Satara police, Kalokhe was sent in judicial custody.
An FIR was registered against Kalokhe under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.