Two cops arrested for drug trafficking in Mumbai, charas worth Rs 4 lakh seized

The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Thane police Wednesday arrested two police constables attached to the Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) for allegedly supplying drugs and recovered charas worth around Rs 4 lakh from them.

The arrested officers have been identified as assistant police inspector Mahesh Vashekar and constable Ravi Vishe.

Acting on a tip-off, the officials of the anti-narcotics department laid a trap near the Durgadi Fort area of Kalyan. They caught the two policemen red-handed while supplying charas. The police recovered 921 gm of charas with an estimated market value of Rs 3,91,000 from them.

The police registered a First Information Report (FIR) under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at Kalyan’s Bazarpeth police station. The two officers were produced before a court and remanded in police custody till Friday.