Mumbai, April 23 -- On October 6 last year, the officers of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)'s Mumbai unit intercepted a vehicle near Shirur, Pune, suspecting that it could be connected to a syndicate trafficking psychotropic substances. There was a pungent scent emanating from the four-wheeler. When they found a suspicious powder and some laboratory equipment in the vehicle, the NCB officers knew they were on the right track to achieving their mission: to identify and dismantle a suspected Pune-based inter-state syndicate involved in the manufacture and trafficking of a psychotropic substance, Alprazolam....