Mammumiya’s son, accomplice held with LSD

AHMEDABAD: The city crime branch on Saturday arrested the son of alleged smuggler from Porbandar Mammumiya Panjumiya, Zuber Bukhari, and his accomplice Shanawazkhan Pathan — the brother of history-sheeter Alamkhan of Juhapura — with a psychotropic drug, lysergic acid, also known as LSD or ‘acid’ in slang.
Crime branch sources said it was for the first time that LSD was seized under the NDPS Act in Gujarat.“Manglore Police had registered a similar case earlier,” said a crime branch source.
Crime branch officers said they seized 990 milligrams of LSD — worth Rs 2 lakh — from their possession. “Possession of more than 25 mg of LSD is an offence. We registered an offence only after the forensics confirmed the drug,” said ACP (crime branch) M D Chaudhary.
The ACP said inspector S L Chaudhary and his squad nabbed Bukhari and Pathan at Vishala Circle. “We found three strips with the accused, with 60 blots of LSD each, each blot worth Rs 800 to Rs 1,000,” added Chaudhary.
During preliminary interrogation it came to light that Bukhari and Pathan got the drug from Arif Shaikh, hailing from Vatva in Ahmedabad but currently based in Goa.
ACP Chaudhary said the drug has become rampant of late. “The peddlers are targeting youths from sound economic backgrounds to earn money. We have started the procedure to inform our Goa counterparts to hunt for Arif, who is also a relative of Bukhari’s,” he said.
LSD can cause adverse psychiatric reactions
According to experts, lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, is a psychedelic drug well known for its psychological effects, which can include altered thinking processes, closed- and open-eye visuals, synesthesia, and an altered sense of time. It is used mainly as an entheogen and recreational drug. LSD is non-addictive. However, acute adverse psychiatric reactions such as anxiety, paranoia, and delusions are possible.