Mumbai: A court here Wednesday granted bail to Ramkumar Tiwari. He is one of the owners of the famous ‘Muchhad Paanwala’ shop. Ramkumar Tiwari was arrested in connection with a drugs case. He was granted bail by the court of a metropolitan magistrate on a cash bond of Rs 15,000.
Tiwari was questioned January 11 for several hours by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). He name had cropped up during the investigation into a drugs case. In the case three persons, including a British national, were arrested January 9 with 200 kg of drugs from suburbs of Khar and Bandra.
After his arrest January 12, Tiwari was remanded to judicial custody after the NCB didn’t press for his remand as the contraband recovered from the accused was of a consumable quantity.
The NCB had said the seized drugs included ganja, imported contraband ‘OG Kush’ (a strain of cannabis indica), and curated marijuana. Some of the drugs had been allegedly sourced from the US.
The paan shop, located at Kemps Corner in south Mumbai, is famous as it is frequented by celebrities. The shop got this unique name as one of the brothers who had founded the shop sported a huge moustache.
