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Bhopal Crime Branch Dismantles Mephedrone Ring Backed by Doctors and Gym Trainers

Investigations under the NDPS Act now target medical prescribers, fitness trainers, club operators, party promoters to map the racket’s full extent.

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The investigation has also exposed disturbing patterns of exploitation, including drugging of young women at parties

Overview

  • Saifuddin and Ashu alias Shahrukh were arrested on July 19 with 15.14 grams of mephedrone, a scooter and a mobile phone valued at Rs 3 lakh following a raid in Govindpura.
  • Police say the suspects enlisted rogue doctors to prescribe the synthetic stimulant as a mental health treatment and gym trainers to market it as a fat-burning supplement.
  • Investigators uncovered a chain-marketing model in which free samples of MD were given to new users to foster dependency and recruit them into the supply chain.
  • The probe also exposed schemes to drug young women at parties for sexual exploitation and to coerce students and rural girls into distribution roles.
  • A case under Section 8/22 of the NDPS Act has been registered and officers are questioning medical prescribers, fitness trainers, club operators, party promoters to map the network’s full extent.