A private doctor, employees of Amazon, Hinduja Global Solutions, Cognizant, Deloitte, a student at the University of Hyderabad, and a Nigeria national were among 28 persons apprehended by the Hyderabad police’s Narcotic Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) on charges of peddling and abusing ganja and other narcotic substances, including MDMA, LSD blots and hash oil.
The arrested were part of three different gangs, from Hyderabad, Commissioner of Police C.V. Anand said on February 26.
In the first case, the sleuths of H-NEW along with Karkhana Police led by DCP Gummi Chakravarthy Reddy apprehended a Nigerian national Nicolas Olusola Rotimy (33), a resident of Alam Kuppam, Puducherry, and nine local drug peddlers along with six consumers who were found in illegal possession of narcotic substances. They seized 10 grams of MDMA, 100 grams of hash oil, and eight kilograms of ganja, all worth ₹5.4 lakh and nine mobile phones from their possession.
