Hyderabad: The Sleuths Task Force arrested seven members belonging to three gangs peddling drugs and captured 16 narcotics substances worth from their ownership, including 98 grams of cocaine.
The police launched a hunt for Peddler Nigeria-based NAB, Tony and the police were designing plans to act against consumers to reduce demand for drugs from the city.
The defendant from the first gang was Imran Babu Shaik (27) from Mumbai, who was the main Association of Tony who fled, and their colleague Noor Mohammed Khan (29) from Mumbai, who had been assigned to the task of peddling contrabands in Hyderabad.
According to the CV City Police Commissioner Anand, Tony supplied cocaine through Imran to the vendor inter-country vendor team such as Noor, in turn, supplying contraband goods to Tony customers in Hyderabad.
“Acting on specific information, our bait team contacted Noor for cocaine.
Noor and Imran came to Hyderabad and checked in to Oyo Lodge in Punjagutta.
Our team caught them near GVK Mall on Thursday and confiscated 83 GM cocaine,” Anand said.
This duo told the North Zone task police, they carry around 100 grams of contraband goods and sell some of the clients.
The police also arrested their cellphones and 30,000 cash.
Meanwhile, another gang member, Syed Khaiser Hussain (30) from Chaderghat, Syed Rashid Ahmed Khan (34) from Gujarat and Najbul Hasan Shaik (24) Mumbai was arrested in Narayangda and 15 GM cocaine and 45 GM MDMA was confiscated from them owned.
Hussain, who wants to provide drugs in the city to make fast money, contact two other accused.
Trio buys cocaine and MDMA from Mumbai-based Ibrahim supplier for 3,000 A GM to sell the same in Hyderabad for 10,000 GM, CP said.
The third gang member, AR Anirudh (22) Dammaiguda and his friend K Avinash (26) from Meerpet, who was addicted to narcotics, decided to sell drugs in the city at a higher price.
According to the plan, Anirudh bought ecstasy pills and LSD tops from unknown suppliers in Goa.
When he and Avinash tried to sell drugs to customers, the police arrested them at the trimulryry intersection on Thursday.
Police confiscated 27 ecstasy pills and 17 crush LSD.
“Until now, we only focus on the narcotics supply chain.
As long as the demand exists, supply will continue.
Now, we have decided to focus on customers also to reduce demand.
We make a list of customers and will hold talks with various stakeholders including psychiatrists and sociologists About whether to capture customers under the NDPS law or how to do it, “Anand said.
CP also said that they would hold discussions with consulates from foreign countries and centers to overcome the problems of foreign nationals involved in peddling.