HYDERABAD : Acting on a tip-off, the LB Nagar Special Operations Team (SOT) along with Vanasthalipuram police arrested three persons and seized 26 grams of MDMA, a psychedelic, from their possession. The accused were identified as A Bharath Reddy, 21, Whickyath, 19, and Tanneru Hemanth Kumar, 25. Rachakonda Commissioner of Police (CP) Tarun Joshi said, “After dropping out from a prominent engineering college, Bharat started leveraging contacts in Bengaluru. He started procuring MDMA at Rs 1,200 per gram and sold it for Rs 5,000. He was also using courier services to send drugs to his consumers.”These peddlers are lately using VOIP, including WhatsApp, Snapchat and Signal applications, to make calls which will not be detected through mobile towers, the CP added.

Source: Indian Express June 19, 2024 01:54 UTC