Surat: There has been an important revelation in the case involving the making of mephedrone at a lab in a city mall. Police learned that the accused chemist, Brijesh Bhalodiya, 28, had lost large sums of money in forex trading. Bhalodiya was taught trading by the alleged kingpin of the drug racket, Janak Jagani, who is in currently in London. Jagani told Bhalodiya to make MD drugs to pay off the debt.Special operations group (SOG) inspector Tushar Pandya told TOI: “Bhalodiya was doing his job sincerely at the company in Sachin. Jagani pressured him to make MD to pay off his debts. Bhalodiya then stole certain mephedrone precursor chemicals from his company’s warehouse, in his tiffin box or other containers that he took there from his home. Bhalodiya owed Jagani around Rs 4 lakh.” According to police, Bhalodiya, an MSc in Chemistry, was sincere in his work at Aether Industries. He was recently promoted to senior chemist, where he earned about Rs 35,000 a month. Meanwhile, SOG police called in Isha Anghan for questioning on Saturday. Anghan is the owner of Dkria Food and Pharma Analytical Laboratory, where the high purity mephedrone was made by Bhalodiya. Anghan was found to be in regular contact with Jagani and gave Bhalodiya space in her laboratory without due verification, she is now under the police lens. Police are investigating financial dealings to ascertain if she was involved.
