KOCHI: The excise officers in Ernakulam on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old IT expert after seizing around 5g of MDMA from him. The accused has been identified as Harikrishnan, a BTech graduate from Cherthala. According to the officers, he is one of the main persons operating a Telegram group named Night Riders Task Team, which has allegedly engaged in selling narcotic products in Ernakulam.
He was arrested in a joint operation carried out by the Ernakulam excise anti-narcotic special squad and Ernakulam city excise range. The officers said that he allegedly used Telegram to expand his customer network and used secret codes to do the drug transaction. He never engaged in direct deal with the customers and even the peddlers who worked for him have not seen him. He used to drop the drug in small packets along roads in isolated areas before sending the location via Telegram to the peddlers for the pickup.
