Three inter-state drug peddlers nabbed
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Bengaluru: Three notorious inter-state drug peddlers have been arrested by the Anti Narcotics Wing of city police and Rs 44 lakh worth hash oil, ganja and other items recovered from them, police said.
A police team, acting on credible information, raided a house on Friday and seized the contraband.
The three -- A Subramani (26), Vidus (31), who had done his MSc in Computer Science and computer application in England and Shegin (21)-- were all from Kerala, an official release said.
Preliminary investigation revealed the trio used to source the drugs from a Visakhapatnam-based peddler and sell them in smaller quantities here. Police also nabbed four inter-state chain snatchers and seized 1.7 kg of gold ornaments worth Rs 85 lakh from them.
With the arrest of the four -- Abu Hyder Ali, Husain Ali, Mehadi Hasan and Sadiaq Ali -- 30 cases of chain- snatching have been solved, the release said. The gang had been operating in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and had been arrested earlier too. PTI