Bengaluru
Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara has directed police chiefs statewide to intensify action against drug networks, following the recent bust of an MDMA manufacturing facility in Mysuru. The facility, run from a garage on the city’s outer ring road, was uncovered in a joint operation led by Maharashtra police alongside Mysuru City Police, resulting in the seizure of over 11 kg of MDMA and the arrest of four individuals.
Describing the incident as “extremely alarming,” Parameshwara emphasised Mysuru’s reputation as a quiet city and warned that deeper investigations are underway to uncover the drug unit’s duration of operation, supply networks, and local connections.
"Mumbai police, I believe they caught somebody, either a peddler or a user I don't know exactly and they have traced it back to Mysuru. Obviously, the person whom they have caught has made a statement that it (MDMA) was outsourced from Mysuru. They have come in search of it and found that some people were doing this in a shed in Mysuru," Parameshwara said.
Addressing reporters, he said, "The question is how porous we are in terms of looking at all these things. That is why I have given very strict instructions to our commissionerate in Mysuru, also generally throughout the state.”
City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar confirmed that the arrests included individuals from Mysuru, Mumbai, and Gujarat. The raid targeted a garage in the Narasimharaja area suspected of being used as a covert distillation lab for producing the synthetic drug liquid ecstasy.
The Home Minister has ordered all district Police Superintendents to ramp up anti-drug operations, signalling tougher enforcement ahead. Authorities are also reviewing protocols and deploying more surveillance resources to prevent similar criminal activity in the future.