MEOW MEOW

<p><em>Call her a police informant a slumlord a successful businesswoman a caring grandmother-but do not call Shashikala 'Baby' Patankar a drug dealer.</em></p> <p>On 9 March 2015 a constable in the Mumbai Police force Dharmaraj Kalokhe was arrested by the local police for possession of a white powder believed to be the synthetic drug Mephedrone. His partner Shashikala 'Baby' Patankar was the informant. Later she was arrested by the police too.</p> <p>In the days that followed the Maharashtra Police declared her a criminal and the media labelled her 'drug queen' but Baby always considered herself an innocent. Unearthing new facts about the case this book is a blow-by-blow account of Baby's capture and the investigation that followed. It is also the story of Mephedrone - better known as Meow Meow - which when it entered the schools colleges and pubs of Mumbai changed the rules of the game and the enforcement of narcotics laws in the city.</p> <p>Fast and pacy <em>Meow Meow</em> is the tale of one of Mumbai's most baffling crime and the intriguing life that Baby Patankar led.</p>