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MUMBAI: Sakinaka police on Thursday arrested a real estate broker and seized 345kg ganja worth Rs 51.8 lakh that he had stocked in his first floor flat at SRA’s Sangharsh Building. Ashok Mehtre (39) was caught from the neighbourhood after police scanned through CCTV footage. Mehtre went into hiding on learning about the raid. Police are collecting details on where the huge quantity was bought from and who was the purchaser here.
The raid came less than 10 hours after Mehtre took the drugs to his flat. Acting on a tip-off, zonal DCP Mahesh Reddy supervised senior inspector Balwant Deshmukh, inspector Budhan Sawant, assistant inspector Liladhar Patil and detection staff. “Mehtre had left his flat on learning about the raid. We opened his house in the presence of a panch and found the huge quantity of drugs,” said Patil.