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"drug-racket"

  • Gang held with 104 kg of marijuana in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: In yet another drug racket bust in the capital region, the Jagadgirigutta Police on Wednesday nabbed a gang with networks in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and seized over 104 kilograms of marijuana worth Rs.15 lakh from them. The arrested persons were Ashish Kumar Sunil Patil (35), of Maharashtra, K.Ravi (25), a farmer, K.Srinu (20), […]

  • Drug racket busted in Hyderabad, three held

    Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police Special Operations Team along with the Nacharam police busted a drug racket operating from agency areas in Araku of Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad and arrested three persons here on Tuesday. One litre of hashish oil and two kilos of marijuana were seized from them. The arrested persons were M Mohan Rao […]

  • Drug racket busted, 11 including nine customers held in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (HNEW) team along with the Osmania University police caught 11 persons including nine customers and seized 120 grams of hash oil and a mobile phone, all worth Rs. 72,000. According to the police, M Madhan (29) along with his associate N Raju, purchased the hash oil from Bujji Babu […]

  • Udta Punjab model drug racket busted in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: This was one Udta Punjab model drug racket that fell flat in Hyderabad, with the Rachakonda Police Special Operations Team and the Keesara police arresting two natives of Punjab here on Friday. Police seized 900 grams of poppy straw concentrate and Rs.1.4 lakh from Jagtar Singh (58), owner of Sandeep Punjabi Dhaba at Kandlakoya, […]

  • Drug racket busted, four held in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: The Malkajgiri Police Special Operations Team along with the Bhongir police busted a drug peddling racket and arrested four persons on Monday. The police seized 120 kg of marijuana, two litres of hashish oil and a car, altogether worth Rs.35 lakh from the gang, which was smuggling the drug from Araku Agency area to […]

  • Hyderabad Cops bust drug racket with Rajasthani touch

    Hyderabad: Giving a local name to a universally known drug can tug on some heartstrings, and help in business as well. That is what Suresh Kumar, an Intermediate dropout working as a sanitary supervisor at a private chemical factory in Jeedimetla and a native of Jalore in Rajasthan, did to bolster his heroin peddling business. […]

  • Hyderabad: Inter-State drug racket busted, nine held

    Hyderabad: The Hayathnagar police busted a drug racket being operated between the Andhra-Odisha Border and Hyderabad and arrested nine persons on Tuesday. Police seized 5 kg of marijuana, 525 grams of hashish oil, a motorbike, 9 mobile phones and a weighing machine from them. The arrested persons were B Indra Kumar (25), an engineering dropout […]

  • Hyderabad Police on money trail in drug racket case

    Hyderabad: The police are now analysing the bank accounts maintained by the eight suspects including prime kingpin Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, who were arrested in the international drug trafficking case busted by Hyderabad Police early this month. Tony, along with seven businessmen and two office boys, was arrested by the Hyderabad Police for being […]

  • Drug racket: Cops to quiz drug racket kingpin Tony 

    Hyderabad:The drug racket kingpin Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony will be taken into police custody for questioning on Saturday, informed West Zone DCP Joel Davis. The DCP added, “We have received the court order and he will be taken into custody from the prison and he will be questioned in the Punjagutta police station.” Earlier, […]

  • Drug racket busted, eight held in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police on Thursday busted a drug racket and arrested 8 persons including a most-wanted drug peddler. The police also seized 10 grams of cocaine and 11 mobile phones. The arrested were identified as Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, 37, a Nigerian national, Niranjan Kumar Jain, Shashwat Jain, Yagyanand Agarwal, Dhandul Surya Sumanth […]

  • Drug racket busted, six held in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: The LB Nagar police busted a drug racket and arrested six persons at Mansoorabad late on Sunday night. Police seized 12 grams of hashish oil, 45 grams of marijuana and five mobile phones from them. The arrested persons were G Prashanth, S Amarthyan Reddy, B Samrat, P Aravind, Sundar Raj and G Venkatesh. One […]

  • Drug Racket: ED grills Calvin for over five hours

    Officials focused on the alleged drug racket kingpin’s links with several film personalities in Hyderabad

  • Actress Charmme Kaur appears before Enforcement Directorate

    She was the second person among the 12 film personalities who got summons from the ED to appear before it.

  • Two held for bomb threat to NDPS judge in Karnataka

    An NDPS special judge hearing the drug racket case received a threat letter and a parcel with a detonator on Monday.

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