Rachakonda SOT together with Vanasthalipuram police busted drug ring between Karnataka and Hyderabad.
Published Date – Fri 06/23/23 05:06 PM
Hyderabad: The Ratchakonda Special Operations Team (SOT) together with the Vanasthalipuram police have busted a drug ring between Karnataka and Hyderabad and arrested a person suspected of drug trafficking.
The officers seized 50 grams of MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), cash and a mobile phone worth a total of Rs 5 lakh.
According to the police, the arrested Ch. Sumesh (30 years old) is a car driver from Rajahmundry, Kerala, who was previously involved in similar cases in Vanasthalipuram and Kerala. The absconder is Adhu Shalbin, a drug dealer from Bangalore, Karnataka.
A drug addict himself, Sumesh, with the help of friends, started sourcing banned substances from Karnataka and selling them to customers in Hyderabad and Kerala for easy money, police said. He was last arrested in 2021 for transporting 240kg of marijuana in Vanasthalipuram with his accomplices. He was also detained at Cherrapalli Central Prison under the Preventive Detention Act.
After being released from prison in November last year, Sumesh continued to deal drugs with his friend Adu Sharbin. A senior police officer said Sumesh bought the drug from Shablin at Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 per gram and sold it at Rs 6,000 to 8,000 per gram. When he came to the city to deliver a shipment, he was caught.
