Navi Mumbai: Drugs by students, for students, via vegetable vendors

The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Navi Mumbai Crime Branch busted a drug cartel run by engineering students who sold drugs to other students through a vegetable vendor.

The police have arrested the vegetable vendor and one engineering student in the case, while the student’s associate, who is also an engineering student, is suspected to have fled the country. Police said they have recovered a consignment of LSD paper worth Rs 8 lakh from the gang. Police sources said the drugs were brought from Goa and supplied to college students across the city and other parts through a syndicate of engineering students.

The accused, identified as Onkar Sanjay Kutale, 23, a resident of Panvel who worked as a vegetable vendor, and Lalit Sunil Pawar, 24, a resident of Panvel who is an engineering student in a Navi Mumbai college.

Both accused have been sent to police custody for 3 days. Representation pic

The officials first arrested Kutale, the vegetable vendor who was doing a side business of selling LSD paper. “During the investigation, he revealed that he was selling drugs to college students. He confessed to purchasing the drugs from Pawar. So, we then arrested Pawar.