India, Oct. 27 -- The police on Sunday busted a Mephedrone (MD) manufacturing unit operating out of a makeshift factory in Pelhar, Nalasopara East, and seized 6.7 kilograms of the drug worth Rs.13.44 crore.

According to the police, the crackdown followed the arrest of one peddler, Mohsin Qayyum Sayyad, 40, a resident of Govandi's Gautam Nagar, on October 5 with 57 grams of MD. During interrogation, Sayyad revealed details that led the police to four more accused - Mehtab Sherali Khan, 29, and Iqbal Bilal Shaikh, 33, both from Govandi's Shivaji Nagar; Sohail Abdul Rauff Khan, 36, from Ghatkopar East; and Ayyub Ali Abubakr Siddiqui, 23, from Karanjade, Panvel.

"Further probe revealed that Ayyub Ali, an SSC dropout, was running the illegal...