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The anti-narcotics cell of the Mumbai Police raided a manufacturing unit at Ankleshwar in Gujarat on Saturday and seized 513 kgs of the banned drug Mephedrone valued at a whopping Rs 1,026 crore in the international market, police said.</p>
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Mephedrone, also known as MD, is a synthetic psychotropic drug banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.</p>
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The owner of the mephedrone manufacturing unit, Giriraj Dixit, a post-graduate in Chemistry, was also arrested.</p>
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Police said Dixit and another co-accused had carried out experiments and perfected the formula for producing mephedrone.</p>
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The drug seizure was one of the biggest by the city police in recent times, PTI news agency cited Deputy Commissioner of Police (ANC) Datta Nalawade as saying.</p>
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The raid was linked to the seizure of 700 kgs of the drug worth Rs 1,400 crore from Nalasopara near Mumbai earlier this month.</p>
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Earlier this month, Mumbai police had seized mephedrone worth Rs 1,403 crore manufactured by the same gang from a godown in Maharashtra&rsquo;s Nalasopara.</p>
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So far, a total of about Rs 2,046 crore worth of MD have been seized and 7 accused have been nabbed.</p>
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