Surat Blue MD Racket: Aether Industries Under Police Scanner

Surat | Gujarat — The Surat-based Aether Industries Limited, a leading manufacturer of advanced intermediates and active ingredients for the pharmaceutical, material science, agrochemical in Sachin GIDC has come under the scanner of the Surat police after its former senior lab technician Brijesh Vrajlal Bhalodia was secretly bringing chemicals from the company to manufacture high purity ‘blue crystal mephedrone’ at his Parvat Patiya based food testing laboratory. 

The Special Operation Group (SOG) of Surat city police has extended the scope of their investigation into the alleged involvement of the company as well. A team of SOG personnel is set to visit Aether Industries Limited,  owned by Ashwin Desai at Sachin, Surat. 

SOG police arrested Brijesh Vrajlal Bhalodia, 28, employed as senior lab technician at the Surat-based Aether Industries Limited and two of his accomplices,after raiding a food testing laboratory in city’s Parvat Patiya area where the accused were manufacturing high purity ‘blue crystal mephedrone’ drug on the behest of the mastermind identified as Janak Jadani who is operating from London. 

The police have arrested the main mastermind of the drug manufacturing Brijesh Vrajlal Bhalodia (age 28), who is himself a senior lab technician. Along with him, drug suppliers Khushal Vallabhbhai Ranpariya (age 27) and Bharatbhai alias Bhano Damjibhai Lathia (age 32) have also been arrested. Brijesh  used to misuse his chemical knowledge to prepare high-quality mephedrone, which was sold in the market at the behest of a London-based handler.

A source in the police said that the role of Aether Industries Limited became crucial as the accused was working as the senior lab technician and that he was bringing chemicals for manufacturing high purity blue mephedrone at his laboratory. The accused Brijest, who is the mastermind, used to prepare 1 kilogram of MD drugs from different chemicals in the laboratory in just five days. While the owner of the laboratory, Isha Anghan, on the advice of Janak Jagani, rented some premises of the lab to Brijesh for Rs 12,000 per month. 

Now the police are focusing their investigation into the case on the Aether Industries and the involvement of other staff into the MD drug racket. How the accused Brijesh used to get his chemicals out of the Aether company? Who was involved with him in this entire racket. The police have started the investigation. 

The case became a highlight for the SOG when SOG caught 21-year-old Jill Bhupatbhai Thummar from Amroli Chhaprabhatha Road with 236.780 grams of MD drugs on January 1, 2026. During strict interrogation of Jill, a shocking confession came to light that these drugs did not come from any other state, but were prepared in a private laboratory within Surat city. After this fact came to light, the scope of the investigation was expanded by forming separate teams of SOG.

The accused were making a special type of ‘blue colored MD drugs’ in the lab. According to the police, these are in high demand at high-level parties. Drug mafias give it a blue color by adding a certain chemical process or color. This is a kind of ‘branding’, so that customers think that this is a ‘super quality’ or ‘premium’ drug. Blue meth was shown in a famous web series. Since then, ‘Blue Crystal’ has been considered extremely powerful in the drug market and its price is also being charged more.