Overview
- A Bengaluru Police statement says the Maharashtra ANTF, Bengaluru City Police and NCB jointly arrested four suspects between December 24 and 25 and produced them in court on December 26.
- Police report seizing 4.2 kg of suspected mephedrone, 17 kg of liquid raw material and equipment from multiple spots, with no functional lab located at the raided sites.
- Preliminary tests were generally positive for amphetamine while specific tests for methamphetamine and MDMA were negative, indicating a possibly impure substance pending further analysis.
- The update contrasts with Maharashtra ANTF’s earlier claim of three Bengaluru factories dismantled, 21.4 kg of MD recovered and contraband valued at Rs 55.88 crore with on‑site destruction.
- The probe stems from a December 21 Navi Mumbai arrest that led investigators to alleged kingpin Prashant Yallappa Patil and to detentions of Suraj Ramesh Yadav and Malkhan Ramlal Bishnoi, with searches for additional suspects continuing.