The absconding owners of the Sakha Organics, from where the Narcotics Control Bureau had seized a large quantity of methamphetamine, will soon be declared as ‘wanted’ by the NCB.
The absconding owners of the Sakha Organics, from where the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had seized a large quantity of methamphetamine three months back, will soon be declared as ‘wanted’ by the NCB.
The NCB in a joint operation had seized the clandestine laboratory manufacturing methamphetamine — a pshychotropic substance banned under the NDPS Act 1995, and also known as ‘ice’ or ‘crystal’ in the illicit drug market — near Mokshi village in Savli taluka of Vadodara district on November 21, 2008. About 30 litres of semi liquid methamphetamine had been recovered.
The bureau officials had also arrested three people of foreign origin and recovered from them 1.5kg of methamphetamine in powder form. The arrest led to the unearthing of the lab.
On the basis of a tip-off, a joint operation was conducted by the Ahmedabad and Mumbai units of NCB. The officials, who put up a watch on the Vadodara -Mumbai highway for hours, intercepted a car with Maharashtra registration number. They found a Canadian national of Chinese origin, Xie Jing Fengalias Richard (50) with his two Malaysian associates Ravindra Karpaya and Gunashekharan Pillay, in possession of about 1.5 kg of methamphetamine.
During their interrogation, it was revealed that they were smuggling the drug to Mumbai, from where it was to be sent via air to other end of the chain. But the more shocking part unearthed while tracing the source was about the laboratory manufacturing the prohibited drug running near Vadodara. During interrogation, it was revealed that the laboratory was established since December 2007. The price of methamphetamine in the illicit market is Rs40 lakh per kg.
Before the NCB could arrest the owners, Kirit Shah and Jagdish Vaidya, they managed to escape. However, the NCB officials sealed their residential premises.
Further, NCB officials have started the procedures to declare the absconding owners as ‘wanted’. Meanwhile, FSL collected the sample of the powder for test.
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