The coordinated investigations of the Punjab Police in association with Mumbai Police Crime Branch, into Devinder Singh alias Dev masterminded international synthetic drug racket had led to two more arrests.
The police teams have now arrested Dr Sanjay Goel, MD in radiology and the owner of Sanvin Group of companies — comprising six companies — from New Delhi and Basant Srivastav from Mumbai. After these arrests, search warrants for conducting search of premises of pharmaceutical factories were obtained and searches were conducted in a coordinated manner along with the Crime Branch.
“Search and seizure of premises of Medicraft Private limited in Thane, Maharashtra, was carried out on January 17 and 18, and yielded large quantity of raw materials for synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals. Investigations have also revealed that large quantity of raw material for manufacture of precursor chemicals has been incinerated in a suspicious manner,” said ADGP Security Dinkar Gupta.
Gupta said that the police remand of Dr Goel and Basant Srivastav has been obtained till January 25, and “they are being questioned for establishing cross-linkages, corroboration of inputs and further unveiling the modus operandi of the synthetic drug racket”. ‘Dr Goel is MD in radiology and left clinical medicine to join pharmaceutical industry. He is widely travelled and maintains an affluent lifestyle with a palatial bungalow in Mumbai,” he added.
