Overview

• The Anti-Narcotics Cell applied MCOCA sections 3(1)(ii), 3(2) and 3(4) in an August case that began with a 766-gram mephedrone seizure on August 7.
• Police named three accused — Jamir Ahmed Ansari alias Boka, Kayanat Shaikh and Adnan Shaikh — with one arrested on August 7 and two still at large.
• Officials described the action as the first use of Maharashtra’s July amendment that brought narcotics-related organised crime under MCOCA.
• Investigators plan to leverage stricter bail provisions, extended detention and admissible intercepted communications to build the case and map money flows.
• Police sources say the group primarily trafficked mephedrone and had links to suppliers outside Maharashtra, with some reports also mentioning cocaine.