A drug factory was running in plot number F-63 located in Bagrauda village of Bhopal. Bhopal police got a clue of this when a 15-member team of Gujarat ATS and NCB raided the factory. Katara Hills police was stationed outside the factory to provide cover. This action, which started at 12 noon on Saturday, stunned even the ATS officers. When the chemical used to make drugs started being weighed, the quantity reached 907 kg. This action continued till around 9 pm. The cost of the recovered drugs is said to be Rs 1814.18 crore. During the police raid, Amit Prakashchandra Chaturvedi, resident of Sultanabad Bhopal and Sanyal Bane, resident of Nashik Maharashtra were present in the factory, who have been arrested. At the same time, two workers of the factory were released by the police after interrogation. They did not know that drugs are prepared in the name of chemicals in the factory. The third accused in the case, Harish Anjana (32), has also been arrested. Investigation so far has revealed that this international network of drug smuggling was formed in jail. The accused also used crypto currency to buy drugs. Search at accused Amit’s hideouts
Accused Amit had rented a flat in Spring Valley, Bhopal. It was searched on Monday. However, the police did not find anything from here. The police also searched his house in Katara. Nothing was found here either. Accused Amit’s wife and children are also missing. The house was locked before the police raid. When the police contacted his brothers, they could not find anything from them either. Amit’s father was a retired policeman. He died five years ago. FIR against landlord for not informing about tenants
The Katara police filed a second FIR on Monday, the second day, for not informing about tenants and servants in the MD drug case. A case has been filed against Sadhvi Srivastava, wife of Saurabh Srivastava, owner of Flat-503 of A Block of Spring Valley, Deoghar, Katara Hills. She is a resident of Shakti Nagar, Govindpura in the city. The flat was rented to Amit Chaturvedi after making an agreement from May 2024. Neither its information was given at the police station nor was it updated on the portal. Factory rented for the lure of 50 thousand rupees per month
The factory owner AK Singh had rented the factory for the lure of 50 thousand rupees per month. The police have also made him an accused for not informing about it. AK Singh is a retired officer. He has been arrested. Congress tweeted a picture of the accused with Deora
The Congress has targeted the government by calling Harish Anjana, an accused in the case, a close aide of Deputy Chief Minister Jagdish Deora. The party posted on X- A factory for making illegal drugs was being run in Bhopal! The BJP government was silent, why was it silent? The answer is in front of us, because the accused had the protection of the BJP. Sanyal and Amit met for the first time in Mumbai
The accused Prakash Chandra Chaturvedi is a science graduate. Earlier he used to do a private job. Later he started his own separate business twice. Both times he failed in business. During interrogation, the first accused said that he was unaware that the chemical made in his factory was used for drug abuse. When ATS interrogated him strictly, he told that he knew Sanyal Bane from a long time. He first met Sanyal in Mumbai through a friend. After this, both of them met several times in Nashik. Five years ago, Sanyal was sentenced to five years in NDPS Act case. He served his sentence in Arthur Road Jail, Mumbai. Sanyal created a network of smugglers in jail. During his sentence, Sanyal met drug smugglers from different states lodged in Arthur Jail, Mumbai. These smugglers also included a notorious smuggler named Tushar Goyal, who is a resident of Delhi. However, he had many hideouts in Punjab, Haryana, Nepal, Gujarat. It was from here that Sanyal found a way to smuggle MD drugs. Before this, he used to sell drugs like cocaine and hashish. While in jail, he got Amit Prakash to start a factory. Prakash was not doing any special work. He was fond of high profile life style. Taking advantage of this, Sanyal, while in jail, sent his henchman and the third accused in the case, Harish Anjana (32) to Prakash. Harish and Sanyal have also been in Arthur Road Jail together. It was Harish who showed Prakashchandra the dream of becoming rich through a short cut. Under Sanyal’s message, he was asked to look for land for a factory in the outskirts of Bhopal. Prakash rented Jaideep Singh’s factory in Bagrauda. This factory was allotted to a person named AK Singh. Which was later bought by Jaideep. The factory was rented in the name of furniture business. The accused took the factory in the name of making furniture. He had told that wood polish would also be made in it. Sanyal had made the entire investment for starting the factory, from advance and rent to ordering the goods. Harish used to send the money received through hawala to Prakash on Sanyal’s instructions. When drug production started in it, Harish used to send these drugs to Mandsaur through different ways and then to the customers from there. For this work, he used to get 10 percent of the money earned from each consignment. After his release from jail, Sanyal started running the factory with Prakash. He used to stay in a hotel in Bhopal. Sanyal under surveillance for 6 months, team stayed in Bhopal for 1 month
According to Gujarat ATS, Sanyal Bane, the accused who was released on bail in 2022 in Maharashtra’s one kg MD drugs case, was being monitored for six months. He was constantly traveling between Bhopal-Indore and Ujjain. When his activities increased in the industrial area near Bhopal, an investigation was started. Then the police came to know that there is a factory in the area, whose ventilation is attached to the ground level. Usually this happens only in chemical factories. Because, in other factories, chimney or ventilation is on the roof for the exit of smoke. This increased the suspicion of the investigation team. A team of 17 policemen stayed in Bhopal for a month for investigation. During this time, surveillance was being done from Ahmedabad ATS office. In this way, by investigating on three fronts, ATS Gujarat was able to reach the country’s largest drug processing factory. Use of crypto currency for transactions
The accused are associated with an international drug smuggling gang. The cocaine factory caught in Delhi recently was also operated by Tushar Goyal, associated with this gang, from behind the scenes. Gujarat ATS and NCB have already arrested Tushar Goyal, Jitendra Pal Singh alias Jassi, Himanshu Kumar, Aurangzeb Siddiqui and Bharat Kumar Jain associated with this gang. During interrogation of these accused, NCB got information about Sanyal’s drug factory running in Bhopal. All the accused are experts in smuggling drugs to foreign countries. During interrogation by ATS, the accused have admitted to planning to send consignments of drugs to UK and Dubai. The accused also used crypto currency for transactions. Amit Chaturvedi of Bhopal and Sanyal Bane of Nashik are involved in the illegal manufacture and sale of the narcotic substance mephedrone (MD) under the guise of a factory in Bagroda Industrial Area of Bhopal. After which the senior officials of Gujarat ATS were informed about it and this action was taken. -SL Chaudhary, DSP, Gujarat ATS 25-30 kg of drugs were being prepared daily
Gujarat ATS got information about this factory from some drug dealers caught in Gujarat. Since then, Gujarat ATS had been keeping an eye on the factory for one and a half months. On confirming the information, ATS contacted Delhi NCB. After this, joint action was taken. During the search in the factory, a total of 907.09 kg of mephedrone (in both solid and liquid form) was found. It is being told that the machines and systems of the factory were so modern and of high capacity that the accused were preparing 25 to 30 kg of drugs daily for the last six months. The accused had rented the factory 6 months ago. The name of the owner of the factory is Jaideep Singh. 8 years ago the factory was leased for construction. This land was taken in the name of furniture manufacturing. Raid was done on Saturday, material for making drugs was seized
The raid was done on 5 October. During this, it was found that the work of making the narcotic drug mephedrone (MD) was going on here. About 5 thousand kilograms of raw material and equipment used in making it were also found. These include grinders, motors, glass flasks, heaters and other equipment. All these materials have been seized for further investigation. It was suffocating to enter the factory without a face mask
According to the police, it was not possible to enter this factory of Amit and Sanyal without a face mask. The team that arrived for investigation started suffocating after entering the factory. After this, chemical resistance masks were ordered, which the team wore and conducted the investigation. Both the accused presented in court, handed over on 8-day remand
After the arrest, Gujarat ATS presented both the accused in Bhopal court on Sunday evening to take them on transit remand. The police team took both the accused to Gujarat on Sunday itself. Police has got 8 days remand of the accused. Third accused also arrested in drug case
In the drug case, the police has also arrested the third accused Harish Anjana (32). Harish is a resident of Mandsaur district. He is a notorious smuggler of the district. Action has been taken against him several times under the NDPS Act. Mandsaur police caught Harish from Malia Kherkheda village and handed him over to Gujarat ATS. According to sources, during interrogation, Harish confessed that he used to supply the chemical used in making MD drug through Gujarat-Maharashtra. He had also taken drugs from Mandsaur resident Prem Patidar. Apart from this, other smugglers of Rajasthan are also connected to the case. Case registered against factory owners too
Bhopal Police has registered an FIR against SK Singh and Jaideep Singh, owners of the factory where Gujarat ATS busted the drug racket in Bhopal. The industrial plot on which the factory was operating in a tin shed was allotted by the Industries Department in the year 2017-18. Which were completed in the year 2022. According to MPIDC data, this plot is registered in the name of M/s Architect Proprietor, whose original owner is Jaideep Singh. Two years later, this plot was sold to BHEL’s retired employee SK Singh, resident of Bhopal. He rented it to Amit Chaturvedi, resident of Kotra Sultanabad, 6 months ago. This information was not given to the administration and the police of the concerned police station. Which is a violation of the rules. A case has been registered in Katara Hills police station on this. Police held a meeting in the industrial area
The police held a meeting of factory owners in Industrial Area Bagrauda on Monday. It was decided that a committee will be formed to keep an eye on such activities. It will include people responsible for the industrial area and local residents. Along with this, the police is preparing an action plan in coordination with Madhya Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation officials. Under this, factories will be searched from time to time. How is the cost of MD drugs Rs 1814 crore? The factory was designed for chemical work only. You can give your opinion on the news here… Also read this news related to the action… MD drugs worth Rs 1800 crore seized in Bhopal: Gujarat ATS and NCB raid a factory; two accused arrested
