India, Oct. 7 -- A co-owner of South Mumbai's famous 'Muchhad Paanwala' shop, who was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for alleged drug possession in January 2021, was discharged by a Special Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act (NDPS) court last week.

Ramkumar Tiwari was arrested by the NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede after the arrest of a British national, Karan Sajnani, and his sisters Rahila and Shaista Furniturewala from Bandra on January 9. The agency claimed to have seized about 200 kilograms of marijuana from the three, although Sajnani maintained that he was falsely implicated.

Ramkumar, one of the four sons of Pandit Jaishankar Tiwari who started the celebrated paan shop at Kemps Corner in the late...