India, May 27 -- In a major crackdown on drugs, the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai crime branch busted an alleged mephedrone (MD) manufacturing unit operating from a rented flat in a posh 23-storey residential tower in Agripada and arrested three persons, officials said on Tuesday.

The police said the accused had converted the kitchen of the tenth-floor apartment in Yasmin Tower, located in the RTO Colony area of Agripada, into a makeshift laboratory for manufacturing the synthetic stimulant drug.

The arrested accused have been identified as Shoaib Mansuri, 30, Sufiyan Mansuri, 28, both residents of Null Bazar in south Mumbai, and a woman identified as Sarkar.

"We have arrested the trio after raiding the flat where MD was bein...