peddlers

CCB

hashish oil

LSD strips

ganja

drugs

A 26-year-old mechanical engineer along with two other computer science graduates who turned drug, after they were unable to find suitable jobs as per their qualifications, have been arrested by the sleuths of the narcotics wing attached to the Central Crime Branch (). The sleuths have recoveredand otherworth about Rs 50 lakhs. All the accused are natives of Kerala and claim to have been getting the drugs from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.They were transporting the drugs in buses. The accused three would keep the drugs at their associate’s house in KR Puram and sold it to software professionals, students and others. On credible information, the sleuths arrested the four near the Bhattarahalli signal on Old Madras Road. The CCB has handed over all the accused to the KR Puram police for further investigations. The accused are identified as M Hari Krishnan, 26, the mechanical engineer, residing in Avalahalli; MG Rahul, 26, a post-graduate in computer science, residing in Bettadasanapura near Electronic City; R Hari Shankar, 26, a computer science graduate residing at Cheemasandra and R Muhammed Fibin, 24, a PUC drop out, residing in KR Puram. Of the four, Krishnan, Rahul and Shankar are all from Trivandrum in Kerala while Fibin is from Calicut.“Except for Fibin, the other are well educated. They were unable to find suitable jobs and become drug peddlers to make money. The gang had been active for the last 18 months. They sourced the drugs from Visakhapatnam via buses,” said an officer. The accused were arrested on Thursday with seven kilograms of ganja, 70 LSD strips, over 12 kilograms of hashish oil, mobile phones and some cash.