NCB busts drug syndicates in Hyderabad and Bengaluru

In a swift follow-up action, the consignor was located in Chennai and the NCB, Chennai apprehended him after 2 days of prolonged field surveillance. The consignor had used a fake address and documents to conceal his identity.

4 nabbed in Bengaluru

According to Amit Ghawate, Zonal Director, NCB, Bengaluru zonal unit, in another operation in Bengaluru, based on a tip-off on Saturday, officers of the NCB, Bengaluru intercepted a Swift car with Andhra Pradesh registration at the Devanahalli toll plaza, nabbed 4 persons and recovered a commercial quantity of MDMA pills, methamphetamine and methaqualone from one of them, a resident of Visakhapatnam. The other 3 suspects are from Bihar and Hyderabad. The four were going towards Hyderabad from Bengaluru.

In a swift follow-up action, the premises of the supplier was identified and a search resulted in the seizure of a small quantity of high-grade ganja, while one person was apprehended from the premises. The syndicate was procuring a variety of drugs from a supplier based in Bengaluru and was selling them at parties and in pubs in Hyderabad.