A team of officers from the Bureau of Narcotics Control (NCB), consisting of Area Director Sameer Wankhede, NCB Superintendent VV Singh, Investigative Officer Vishwanath Tiwari, and three NCB sepoys, was attacked in the Goregaon area. Sunday night when they arrested a Kerry Kelvin Mendes with 20 spots of the drug LSD. Two NCB officers sustained minor injuries.
OCN officials contacted Goregaon police, who arrested three suspects identified as Vipul Krishna Agre, 25, Yusuf Amin Shaikh, 24, and Amin Abdul Latif Shaikh, 55. According to officials from the OCN. OCN, the men began to abuse and pressure OCN officials and fought with them. . They also damaged the official vehicle and a pair of handcuffs. NCB officials said they tried to rally a mob around the NCB team to thwart Mendes’ arrest.
Vishal Thakur, Zone 11 Police Deputy Commissioner, said: “Following a complaint from NCB officials, we registered one case and arrested all of them. We have asked investigating officers to verify his criminal record and investigate the case thoroughly. ”
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VV Singh, superintendent of NCB, in his complaint said that Agre and Shaikh tried to argue with him and then began to beat him. NCB agent Shiva Reddy, who came to his aid, was also attacked.
Sameer Wankhede, Mumbai NCB area director, said: “The Mumbai police helped our team. Five members of our team had come to carry out the raid and the suspects gathered a crowd of 60-70 people to save the street vendor. But we managed to arrest him and recovered a commercial amount of LSD from him. ”
“During this incident, two or three of our staff were injured, after which we filed a case against them at the Goregaon Police Station,” added Wankhede.
An FIR has been registered against the suspects under articles 353 (Aggression or criminal force to dissuade the public servant from fulfilling his duty), 323 (Penalty for causing harm voluntarily), 504 (Intentional insult with the intention of causing a breach of public order ) and 34 (Common Intent) of the Indian Penal Code.
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