Mumbai Police is renowned for its creative approaches to dealing with offenders and crimes. In the western neighborhood of Jogeshwari, an officer from its crime department disguised himself as a food delivery agent to catch a drug peddler and confiscate a mephedrone worth ₹10 lakhs, an official said on Sunday.
The head of the criminal branch unit 10, Inspector Deepak Sawant, reportedly dressed like a food delivery man to capture the accused in the SV Road area on Saturday and Sunday night.
After a pursuit, Sawant and his group apprehended the culprit, who was identified as Faisal Akbar Makhanoja.
The official stated that a complaint has been filed under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and that their team has found 100 grams of mephedrone (MD) worth ₹10 lakh from the accused.
In addition, two drug dealers from the Santosh Nagar neighborhood were apprehended by Mumbai’s Crime Branch Unit 11, and narcotics valued at ₹12 lakh were taken from them.
Under the NDPS Act, police filed a complaint against the accused parties, Akshay Jagtap and Iqbal Anwar Hussain.
“Drugs valued at ₹12 lakh were seized from two drug dealers in the Santosh Nagar neighborhood by Mumbai’s Crime Branch Unit 11. Under the NDPS Act, police filed a complaint against suspects Akshay Jagtap and Iqbal Anwar Hussain, according to Mumbai Police.
A wanted individual was taken into custody
Another incident involved the 31-year-old guy, who was believed to be dead and sought in connection with a murder case, being apprehended by Mumbai Police from the nearby Palghar district’s Nalasopara region.
The police tracked down the offender, Deepak Narayan Bhise, after obtaining his wife’s cell phone number.
According to the official, he moved about a lot until settling down in Nalasopara, where he has been renting an apartment with his family for the past two years. He had previously taken on tree-trimming jobs. Bhise was charged with the murder of Raju Chikna in 1989 as well as attempting to kill Dharmendra Saroj.
In the 1992 murder case, he was given bail, but he never showed up for the court hearing. According to the official, the court proclaimed him missing in 2003 and requested that the police track him down.
“Accused Bhise has been arrested under Indian Penal Code Section 307 (attempt to murder) and lodged in a jail in Thane after being produced in court,” sub-inspector Nitin Satam of the Kandivali police station stated. Additional research is being conducted.
