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ELECTION 2018
DRUGS
of anonymity took the correspondent to a few pubs
in these localities. It seems as if these were some Bol-
lywood locations where yongesters found clutching
cigarettes in their hands and shaking hips, dancing
to the tune of musics. The MICRO stealthily hand-
ed out packets to the staff and rushed out to avoid
recognition.
When asked why did he handover packets to the
staff, pat came the reply: They too need their cuts. He
said that delay would land him behind bars.
The disclosure reveals two things: The drugs are
supplied to the customers through pub’s staff and
girls too moonlight as peddlers as few could suspect
them. They used to hide these inside their clothes and
innerwear.
In Juhu there are a few infamous pubs where drugs
are easily available: You pay and get ecstatic!
When TEHELKA informed Juhu’s senior Police
Inspector, Pandrinath Waaval, he said the police
team on a tip off had raided these pubs in the past on
several occasions but nothing could be found from
there. After this, the pubs management had changed
their entire staff.
HIGH PROFILE
Pubs, discotheques and high profile night clubs have
become the status symbols these days and students
of elite institutions are more prone to succumb to its
temptation. In the first flush of youth, they fail to see
the trap laid down by the peddlers to plunge them into
the deep abyss of withdrawal symptoms and halluci-
nations. They remain the soft targets of drug lords and
used by them to popularize such psychotropic drugs
among their peers.
The senior PI Wavel said, “I frequently make sur-
prise visits to colleges and other educational insti-
tutions in my area along with my seniors as well as
Since past few years, the state’s narcotic depart- junior officers in order to prevent youngsters from
ment of the Mumbai police have sprung into action falling prey to drugs. I also try to convince young peo-
and sealed few factories manufacturing MD. The ple to say no to drugs and talk with the authorities in
operation carried out under Additional Commissioner these institutions as how to protect them from drug
Dr Manoj Sharma, between January 2019 to Septem- menace.”
ber this year 125 drug peddlers were arrested and Wavel has formed a special team of 8 javans to keep
drugs worth over 4 crore have been seized, which an eye on peddlers. “We’ve braced up to face chal-
contains cocaine, MD, charas and ganja. 107 FIR has lenges thrown by drug mafias and developed ways
been registered against the offenders. Despite strict and means to arrest them and abort their plans “.
surveillance, the market for such drugs has been Meanwhile, Shivdeep Lande, DCP Anti-Narcotic
expanding in the metropolis. cell dwells on the shift in the modus operandi of drug
mafias currently. He said they have given tablet form
MUMBAI’S NIGHT LIFE to the drug MD inorder to camouflage it from being
Mumbai is known for its night life. The affluent west- recognized. Moreover they are in alluring colours to
ern suburbs lying along Arabian sea boast of several tempt children. Additional CP Dr Manoj Sharma dis-
drug mafia’s den. The upmarket areas of Juhu, Khar, closed that 80 locations of drug supply chains that
Bandra, Santacruz have plenty of pubs and discos earlier used to supply drugs to colleges and educa-
where drug use is rampant. One MICRO on condition tional institutions have been destroyed.
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