Three held with drugs worth Rs 16.4 lakh in Gachibowli

HYDERABAD: Gachibowli police, in coordination with the SOT Cyberabad, arrested three alleged MDMA peddlers and seized 95.41 grams of MDMA and 50 grams of OG Kush worth 16.4 lakh.

Key points

• The accused were identified as Kerala natives Md Razal Abdul Gafoor and Navina KD and Andhra Pradesh native Koripella Yashwanth Sai Shanmukh.
• Serilingampally Zone DCP Ch Srinivas remarked police arrested Yashwanth on August 11 near Kingdom Pub Road at Vattinagulapally.
• On August 18, police arrested Razal at Thrissur in Kerala.

What happened

In practice, the accused were identified as Kerala natives Md Razal Abdul Gafoor and Navina KD and Andhra Pradesh native Koripella Yashwanth Sai Shanmukh. The seized MDMA was valued at 11, 40, 920 and the OG Kush at 5 lakh.

Serilingampally Zone DCP Ch Srinivas remarked police arrested Yashwanth on August 11 near Kingdom Pub Road at Vattinagulapally. During questioning, he allegedly made public that he had procured MDMA from Razal, a Kerala resident, and Navina. This person is from Bengaluru.

On August 18, police arrested Razal at Thrissur in Kerala. During questioning, he allegedly made public that he had supplied 44.41 grams of MDMA to Yashwanth. It he had procured from a Nigerian national identified as Sam. The same day, police arrested Navina at Begur in Bengaluru.

The bottom line

For now, three held with drugs worth Rs 16.4 lakh in Gachibowli remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.