Pramesh S Jain.Yogesh K Porwar
The West Division police of city market police on Monday arrested two notorious drug peddlers hailing from Rajasthan and recovered brown sugar and MDMA worth Rs 2 Crore from their possession.
The accused has been identified as,Pappuram,20,resident of Attibele,and native of Jalore district in Rajasthan,and his associate, Chunni lal, resident of Attibele and native of Banswara in Rajasthan.
Addl CP,West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,told media persons,our City market police inspector Kumaraswamy BG,received a credible information that two persons are indulged in selling brown sugar near godown street and are waiting for their clients to deliver the drugs substances.
Based on a tip off,in the evening Inspector BG Kumaraswamy and his special team rushed to godown street in city market and surrounded the area and kept a close watch on their movements and after getting confirmation the team caught Pappuram Ravi Purohith,20 and his associate Chunnilal,20,red handed and recovered 21 grams of brown sugar and 59 grams of MDMA and cash Rs.15,000 from them.
During investigation it was found that the duo was waiting for the clients to deliver the drugs when the police caught them.
The team seized the drugs substances and arrested both the accused under NDPS Act and team grilled the duo who revealed that they have stored the drugs in their house.
Based on their information,the police raided Pappuram’s rented house in Attibele and recovered a huge cache of drugs from his car including 800 grams of MDMA,600 grams of brown sugar,1 kg,Mixing powder, 1.7 Kgs of Marijuana,two hookahs,six mobile phones and a weighing machine.
A detailed investigation by the team the accused said they are sourcing the drugs from their native place Rajasthan and selling it to their old clients and their main targets were engineering students in outskirts of Bengaluru.
The city market police had obtained the information about the accused 10 months ago and were working on the information to catch them red handed and on 8th August they succeeded in arresting the duo and recovered huge quantity of Synthetic Drugs and other materials worth of Rs.2 Crore from their possession.
A case has been registered in City Market police station under NDPS Act and further investigation is on.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Addl CP,West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,P Ravikumar,PI,BG Kumaraswamy,PSI,as,Rama Nayak,ASIs,as,Nagappa,Srinivas,and other crime staff as,Vijaykumar MS,N Shekhar,Vijaykumar VJ and kumar has been appreciated for the exemplary and good piece of investigation done in the case and nabbed the duo notorious drug peddlers and seized huge quantity of drugs from them.
It is a big cache as these accused used to supply drugs to college students across city and to make ease money is now cooling their heels in jail and for the excellent work done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
