Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 6 has arrested five drug peddlers from the Santacruz area and seized drugs worth Rs 49 lakhs in the international market, Mumbai Police said on Saturday.
Two peddlers arrested during a drug bust in Mumbai shipped naroctics and medicines to Australia and the United Kingdom, Mumbai police informed on Saturday.
The security forces on Friday busted a narco-terror module and recovered 7 kg of heroin, Rs 2 crore in cash, arms and ammunition from the house of a notorious drug peddler in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The arrest came days after Assam Police on February 25 apprehended two from the Karbi Anglong district and seized 2.013 kg of Morphine, valued at Rs 8 Crores in the international market.
Three persons were also arrested in connection with the crime. All of them are residents of Navi Mumbai and were transporting the narcotic substances from Ambdar village in the Sambalpur District of Odisha.