India, Oct. 25 -- The Mira-Bhayandar-Vasai-Virar police have busted a chemical manufacturing unit in Telangana that allegedly supplied a key ingredient used to make mephedrone, or MD, as part of their investigation into a drug racket linked to underworld operative Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Salim Dola.

The Crime Detection Branch's Unit 4 raided the factory in Pashamylaram on Wednesday and arrested Ramesh Babu Sake, a resident of Medchal-Malkajgiri in Hyderabad, who allegedly manufactured and supplied the controlled chemical. Police seized 44.699 kg of the chemical, valued at Rs.27.06 lakh, along with raw materials and laboratory equipment. The facility was subsequently dismantled, officers said.

The raid is the latest breakthrough in a...