Ahmedabad Sep 27 PTI Two persons were arrested on Monday and mephedrone a banned drug worth Rs 26 lakh was seized from them in Gujarats Banaskantha district a police official said A team of the Special Operations Group SOG nabbed the two persons from Banaskanthas Palanpur city located about 150 km from Ahmedabad while they were on way to Rajasthan from here in a private bus he said Acting on a tip-off the SOG team searched the bus and apprehended the two accused Gorkharam Jat and Jogaram Jat both hailing from Barmer in Rajasthan and seized 260 gm of the contraband worth Rs 26 lakh from their possession the official said Mephedrone also known as meow meow or MD is a synthetic stimulant The accused have been booked under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act the official said Last week in the single largest heroin haul in India authorities seized around 3000 kg of the drug believed to be from Afghanistan and worth abour Rs 21000 crore in the global market from two containers at the Mundra port in Gujarats Kutch district officials earlier said PTI COR KA GK GK
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