Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (HNEW), in coordination with Masab Tank police, arrested a 28-year-old engineering dropout for possessing drugs like MDMA and cocaine worth Rs 12 lakh.
Ejaz Ahmed from Bihar was apprehended with 5 grams of weed, 15 ecstasy pills and cash worth Rs 1,100.
Police say Ahmed is a civil contractor from Bengaluru, who earlier worked with his father.
Later, he started a business in civil contracting, and although it was a success, Ahmed soon found himself in financial loss when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Burdened, Ahmed started consuming drugs with his friends and over the period, he became a peddler.
The engineering dropout soon started procuring multiple drugs, including MDMA, cocaine, weed, and ecstasy pills, from Nigerian suppliers via WhatsApp. He also received the drug through a Bengaluru-based Nigerian transporter at a lower price. Ahmed sold the same to the needy customers in Bangalore and Hyderabad at higher rates., apprehended the accused.
He has been boked under sections 8(c) r/w 22(c), 22(b), 20(b) (ii) (A), 27(A), 29, 27(a), 27(b) of NDPS Act-1985.
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