A few days ago, a team from the Fourth Town Police Station working in tandem with the Anti-Narcotics Cell of the City Police arrested five accused and busted a drug trade. The police also seized about 50 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) blots and about 4.4 gm of white powder suspected to be MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) another variety of synthetic drug of the hallucinogen variant that is nicknamed in the drug world as Ecstasy or Molly.
This was a well-planned decoy operation, where the police team posed as potential buyers. But this did not happen without a deep dive into the drug world by the investigating team which led to the unearthing of a number of facts. The team, under the guidance of Commissioner of Police Ch. Srikanth, could understand the profile of the consumers, peddlers or traders, the modus of smuggling the drugs into the city and primarily how the consumers are contacted.
Social media and technology have been extensively used as most of the consumers and peddlers are engineering graduates or students from reputed engineering and other colleges, says Mr. Srikanth.
