New Delhi, May 18 -- The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a clandestine laboratory in Dehradun where a Syrian national manufactured Captagon, a banned synthetic stimulant popularly known as the 'jihadi drug', and arrested an Indian national who had leased the place to another Syrian, police officers aware of the matter said. The NCB on Saturday night unearthed the laboratory after questioning Alabras Ahmed, the Syrian national who was arrested on May 11, and is the lookout for a second Syrian national who prepared the drug in the Dehradun laboratory, the officers added. Last week, 31.5kg of Captagon was seized from a house in Delhi's Neb Sarai, where Ahmed lived, and 196.2 kg from a container at the Mundra Port in Gujarat. Both seizures were cumulatively valued at Rs.182 crore. Following this, Union home minister Amit Shah announced on Saturday that the NCB had seized the first-ever consignment of Captagon, valued at Rs.182 crore and arrested a foreign national. An officer aware of the matter, who asked not to be named, said, "The questioning of Syrian national Alabras Ahmed led us to the illegal laboratory in Dehradun where the pills were manufactured. The 31.5 kg Captagon found in his Neb Sarai house was manufactured here, while the 196.2 kg of Captagon found at Mundra Port was imported from Syria." The officer added that the factory owner, Sanjay Kumar, charged the Syrian national Rs.50,000 daily rent for using the premises to manufacture the drug. "This is the first case to come to light of drug traffickers manufacturing Captagon in a clandestine laboratory," he added. Kumar, police said, is a resident of Saharanpur, who was earlier arrested for misusing his food license to make chemicals at his factory in Dehradun in 2025, and was out on bail. "For 14 days, he had already taken Rs.700,000 from Ahmed and manufactured over 200,000 pills (nearly 32 kg). A Syrian national known to Ahmed put him in touch with Kumar and arranged the factory on rent. The man also arranged another Syrian to manufacture the tablet," the officer added....