Noida Police on Tuesday busted a drug racket from Mitra Society and seized narcotics worth Rs 100 crore. According to reports, the racket was being operated from a residential house of Mitra Society in Greater Noida. During the raid, the police recovered a huge quantity of narcotics and arrested two foreign women.
Police said that foreign nationals were running a drug lab near Omega 1, a posh sector of Greater Noida.
On the trail of one of the nine accused arrested on May 17, the police raided the house on Tuesday.
Nine people of African origin were arrested on 17 May
Earlier on May 17, the police had arrested nine people of African origin from a house in Theta 2, Greater Noida and recovered 46 kg of methamphetamine (MDMA), which is estimated to be worth Rs 200 crore in the international market. The foreign students had come to India on visa and were living on rent.
Additional DCP Greater Noida Ashok Kumar said that during interrogation of Chidi, one of the nine accused, information was received about the second drug lab in Greater Noida, on the basis of which the police raided the house on Tuesday and recovered the drugs.
Police said the lab was running for about a year and drugs were supplied from abroad.