Following a woman’s allegation that her cricketer son and his wife were lured into recreational drugs by his friends, the Gandhigram police have arrested two men after they were found to be in possession of cathinones.
Akash Ambasana’s mother Alka Ambasana, who played age-group cricket, had given a statement to the media on October 21 that his friends had implicated Akash and Akash’s wife Ami Cholera in drug abuse.
She had also said that Akash, who is in his 20s, had left the family home and feared for the safety of his son and Ami.
Following her media statement, Rajkot city police had formed various teams and searched Akash, 22-year-old Ami and their friend Irfan Pattani (43), residents of Ghanchiwad area, in a hotel room on Race Course Ring Road.
Police had also recovered three syringes from the room, two of which contained the substance while the third was empty. all three told
Police said the two syringes contained mephedrone and they used it as an injection. After registering a non-cognizable offence, the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) sent samples of the substance in the syringes for forensic analysis.
A police officer involved in the investigation said, “While we await the FSL report to confirm the syringes recovered from Akash’s hotel room, we are helping the couple in their rehabilitation on humanitarian grounds. ” Represented Gondla in Under-19 tournaments organized by Saurashtra Cricket Association but is no longer an active professional cricketer. “
Alka had alleged in her statements that Sudha Dhamelia, a resident of Rayadhar area of the city, was selling mephedrone. He further alleged that Kaushik Ranpara, Sameer Qadri, Karan Kakkar, Mayur Khatri and Mayur Dhameliya had made Akash and Ami addicted to mephedrone.
Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) of Special Operations Group Aslam Ansari stopped a car near Ekjanagar near Airport Railway Crossing on Friday and detained Mayur Jada alias Mayur Khatri (25) and Soib Mamoti (31) in the car. Took in, who was driving the car after four disposals. Syringes and needles and a plastic bag containing brown powder were recovered from the car.
A forensic science expert said the powder, which weighed 0.45 grams, was prima facie a type of cathinone, a substance prohibited under the NDPS Act. Police said the market price of 0.45 grams of cathinone was Rs 4,500.
The Gandhigram police have registered a case against Jada, a resident of Bilkha village in Junagadh and Mamoti, a resident of Ekjanagar area of Rajkot city. He was later arrested after he tested negative for both COVID-19.
“The cricketer’s mother had alleged that Mayur Khatri was supplying drugs to his sons and friends,” the police officer said.
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