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Telangana DCA & excise dept conduct joint raid, seizes Rs. 9 crore worth 3-MMC; company MD arrested
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
March 23 , 2024
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On a tip off by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), the Drugs Control Administration in Telangana carried out a joint operation along with the Department of Prohibition and Excise in a chemical factory and busted illegal manufacturing of the psychotropic substance ‘3-Methylmethcathinone’, otherwise called ‘3-MMC’.
Rupees 9 crore worth stocks of the illicit drug have been seized by the official in the joint inspection and the managing director, production manager and the quality control in-charge of the company were arrested by the prohibition and excise officials. A case has been registered at Patancheru Excise Station with the date of March 21, 2024 under Section 8(c) r/w 22(c) of NDPS Act.
The joint raid was conducted on March 21 and 22. The quantity of the seized stock is 90.48 kilograms. The drugs were stocked under certain code names such as ‘YLV01’.
Sources form the DCA informed that the manufacturing site was at PSN Medicare Private Ltd located in IDA Bollaram in Sangareddy District. 3-MMC is a drug of abuse which was circulated on the market and used recreationally by drug addicts.
According to VB Kamalasan Reddy, director general of the Telangana DCA, the director of the PSN Medicare Private Ltd. is one Kasthur Reddy Nemallapudi who manufactured the abusive drug, ‘3-MMC’, and also exported huge quantities of the product to European countries.
The stocks of material with code name ‘YLV01’ detected at the site were manufactured without any batch manufacturing records or production logs. Officers detected stocks of quantity of 90.48 Kgs of YLV01 powder in the manufacturing site. On verification of the orders received by Kasthur Reddy from several foreign nations and the sale transactions carried out by him, it has been found that the material manufactured under code name ‘YLV01’ is chemically “2-(methylamino)-1-(3- methylphenyl) propan-1-one”. The chemical name 2-(methylamino)-1-(3- methylphenyl) propan-1-one pertains to an illicit drug 3-Methylmethcathinone, popularly known as 3-MMC which is listed under Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) as a ‘Psychotropic Substance’ and its manufacturing and sale is prohibited under NDPS Act.
Kasthur Reddy has been manufacturing and supplying the illicit drug, 3-MMC under the chemical name 2- (methylamino)-1-(3- methylphenyl) propan-1-one. The officials found that Kasthur Reddy Nemallapudi also exported 3- Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) to European nations. He has been manufacturing designer drugs such as 3-Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) and 2-Methylmethcathinone (2- MMC), which are structural isomers of Mephedrone 4-Methylmethcathinone (4-MMC) that have been designed to mimic the effects of the drug Mephedrone with an intention to avoid classification as illegal (to circumvent drug abuse laws) and/or detection in standard drug tests. However 3- Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) is recently classified as a psychotropic substance under the NDPS Act.
3-MMC is closely related in structure to the illicit drug mephedrone (4-MMC) and was first identified being sold in Sweden in 2012 and is also illegal in most countries that have banned Mephedrone, including India.
Officers from the DCA including the ADC, P. Ramu and Drugs Inspectors B. Lakshminarayana, M. Chandrasekhar, G. Anil, Karthik Siva Chaitanya and officers from Prohibition and Excise Department such as assistant excise superintendent J. Jeevan Kiran and excise inspectors like A. Subhash Chander Rao and A. Balaraju and their staff are among the officers who carried out the raid.
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