Drug agency attaches 4 properties of prime accused of Rs 4856 crore: Mumbai police

Mumbai Police official said that the authorities have attached four properties in Maharashtra and Gujarat belonging to the prime accused in the last year's case of seizure of mephedrone worth Rs 4,856 crore.

The competent authority of Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act confirmed the action against the properties worth more than Rs 2.67 crore owned by Prem Prakash Singh, the main accused in the case, the official said.

Last year, the Mumbai Police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) unearthed a syndicate of mephedrone manufacturing and distribution and recovered 2,428.958 kilograms of the drug valued at Rs 4,856 crore from Dahisar (in Mumbai), Nalasopara (in Palghar district) and Ankleshwar (in Gujarat), the official said.