SURAT: Crime branch sleuths nabbed four accused including a woman with 79 grams of mephedrone worth Rs 7.90 lakh near Dindoli-Kharvasa bridge early on Thursday morning.
The accused had procured the contraband from Mumbai.
Police arrested Kamlesh Dugad, 38, his partner Krishnadatt Dubey, 36, Dubey’s girlfriend Puja Gupta and Vikas Patel, 27, cab driver.
They were booked under various sections of The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
Dugad runs a pan shop in Parvat Patiya and also worked as a property dealer.
Along with his regular businesses he sold the drugs too, police said.
“The accused used to supply some quantity of the drug to a person.
We are yet to arrest him,” said a crime branch official.
Dugad used to frequently go to Mumbai to buy the drugs, said police.
“We are investigating from whom he bought the drug and how he dealt with his clients in the city,” said a police official.
“Dugad mostly went to Mumbai in a cab to avoid being frequently stopped by cops for checking.
They hired the cab to go to Mumbai this time as well but got caught while returning,” said police.