With no let up in the continued crackdown by the security agencies g on the drug peddlers operating in the metropolis and surrounding areas, the Mumbai Police sleuths have arrested two drug peddlers and seized Charas worth Rs 1.59 crore from them.
Identifying one of the the arrested drug peddlers as one Kisan H. Gaud alias Sathe (24), the police said that a police team had caught him from Parekh Nagar in Malad east earlier, but he managed to escape from the clutches of the police.
However, the police arrested him on Saturday along with a plastic bag with 3.20 kgs Charas worth Rs.1.02 crore.
Earlier on Thursday, the police had arrested another identified as one Suraj Vijaybahadur Yadav alias Potya (21) and seized Charas worth Rs.57 lakh from him.
Both the arrested drug peddlers were produced before a magistrate court which has remanded them in police custody till February 16.
Saturday's was the second major action by Mumbai Police in the past 24 hours. Earlier, the police had seized 1.80 tonnes Ganja worth Rs.3.60 crore concealed under a consignment of coconuts from a truck in the eastern suburbs.