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JODHPUR: The NCB and ATS have arrested six more persons in Rajasthan in connection with an inter-state drug racket and unearthed a fourth manufacturing lab in Sirohi district with the seizure of narcotics worth Rs 45 crore, officials said on Monday.The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), after about three months of “intensive” technical and ground surveillance, had on April 27 busted three “clandestine” drug manufacturing labs in Rajasthan and Gujarat leading to the seizure of 300 kg of narcotics and arrest of seven persons, according to NCB Deputy Director General (Operations) Gyaneshwar Singh.A total of 149 kgs of mephedrone or ‘meow meow’ drug (both in powder and liquid form), 50 kg ephedrine, and 200 litres of acetone was recovered from the three labs located in Bhinmal of Jalore district and Osian in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, the officer said.On Sunday, six drug dealers, including the mastermind of the Rajasthan network, who were part of the same network were arrested.These persons were involved in the purchase of raw materials from suppliers in Gujarat for making mephedrone drug, the officials said.During interrogation, it was revealed that the accused used to manufacture drugs in their laboratories and dispose of this entire material in just a month.For this, they used nail polish or paint remover, which has deleterious effects on the human body, as the base material, they said.Joint Director (NCB) Ghanshyam Soni, in a statement on Monday, said drugs worth Rs 45 crore have been seized from the lab in Sirohi.Soni said the drugs seized from Jodhpur’s Osian are being investigated by teams of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and added, “Only after the completion of this investigation, the worth of the drug could be ascertained”.Those arrested on Sunday have been identified as mastermind Kuldeep Singh Rajpurohit and his accomplices Rajaram Meghwal, Bajrang Lal Bishnoi, Deepak Solanki, Shiv Ratan Agarwal and Rampratap, the officer added.Jodhpur (Rural) Superintendent Dharmendra Singh Yadav said the team is also trying to nab Jagdish Bishnoi, who is an aide of Rampratap.Rampratap ran a medical store in Osian and the drug manufacturing lab was set up in the same premises behind the shop.
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Six more held, fourth narcotics lab unearthed in Rajasthan’s Sirohi
