In its crackdown against drug peddlers, the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai crime branch arrested five persons for allegedly carrying 130 kilograms of cannabis worth Rs 26 lakh on Sunday.
Acting on an information, a team from Worli unit of ANC laid a trap near Phoenix Market City in Kurla and apprehended five persons after their movements found suspicious. From them, police recovered six luggage bags, when the bags were checked 130 kilograms of cannabis were recovered. The seized contraband substance is worth Rs 26 lakh in the international market, said police.
The five arrested persons are identified as Nijamuddin Shaikh (33), Rajesh Jaisawal alias George (42), Mohammad Sufiyan Khan (35), Mohammad Nisar Shaikh (31) and Duruprasad Yeddu (24)
Following the seizure, an offence under the relevant sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act was registered. According to the police, the accused brought the band substance from Andhra Pradesh and they were trying to sell it when police nabbed them.
The five were produced before the court on Monday which remanded them to police custody.
