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NCB Mumbai intercepted Shaikh and his associate Sahab Mulla and recovered 20 kg codeine-based cough syrup, 56 gram mephedrone and 450 gram ganja, officials said.

The NCB is also in the process of taking British national Karan Sajnani and Rahila Furniturewala into custody in this connection. The duo was earlier arrested along with others in a probe involving the seizure of high-end marijuana.

As the NCB questioned Bhujwala about the chats, they came to know that only one person used to chat in the garb of various identities and that person was not even a woman

So far, Mumbai police have arrested 29 persons in connection with the FIR registered in the Sushant Singh Rajput case.

An NCB official said they had received a tip-off about the two accused selling mephedrone at Mahim railway station

The NCB last month busted a major drug trafficking racket after raiding a mephedrone manufacturing unit in Dongri area of south Mumbai. It had arrested gangster Parvez Khan alias Chinku Pathan, a henchman of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, following the seizure of mephedrone.

Since the narcotics case linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput was transferred to the NCB and officer Sameer Wankhede was made in-charge of the Mumbai Zonal Unit in September 2020, the agency has registered 40 cases. Among those named are actors, relatives of politicians and others linked to the underworld. In an interview, Wankhede speaks to Mohamed Thaver

In an interview, Sameer Wankhede tells Mohamed Thaver about several cases probed by the NCB and the accusations faced by them.

Drug supplier Arif Bhujwala is touted to be one of the largest suppliers of Methamphetamine in the city and is believed to be in touch with drug suppliers linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

The NCB is on the lookout for Arif Bhujwala, allegedly linked to the Dawood Ibrahim gang, and a major supplier of mephedrone who fled his Dongri residence on Thursday when the NCB team conducted a raid there.

On Wednesday, the NCB claimed to have busted the racket, and arrested Parvez Khan alias Chinku Pathan, who is related to underworld don Karim Lala active in Mumbai during the 1970s and 1980s, police said.

The NCB has claimed that the investigators had recovered voice chats between these accused and therefore, it is necessary to obtain their voice samples "to ascertain the nature and extent of their involvement".