India, Nov. 2 -- The Sahar police detained two women identified as the wives of an alleged narcotics supplier wanted by the Panvel City police after recovering Rs.40 lakh, suspected to be proceeds of drug sales, from a hotel room in Andheri East on Friday. The alleged supplier, Farukh Hamid Shaikh alias Farukh Batata, was not found at the hotel and is suspected to have left shortly before the raid.

According to the complaint filed by police inspector Vijay Sakharam Vange, 50, the police received a tip-off from a confidential informant that Shaikh, an alleged major narcotics supplier in Panvel, was staying at a five-star hotel near Mumbai International Airport. A team was sent to the hotel to verify the information and apprehend him.

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