Police bust two drug rings in city, four arrested

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru

The City police busted two drug rings and recovered narcotics worth Rs 95 lakh from the accused involved.

Acting on a tip-off, the Banaswadi police arrested a person selling narcotics to students near HBR Layout and recovered 700 grams of MDMA crystals, worth Rs 35 lakh from him. The police identified the accused as Munafiz alias Tony, 26, hailing from Kerala.

According to the police, Munafiz went to Dubai in 2018 and got a job as a salesman at a mall. However, a few months later he was arrested in Dubai for drug peddling. “He had spent three years and eight months in a Dubai prison and was recently deported to India,” an officer from Banaswadi police station said.

After coming to Bengaluru, he rented a flat near HBR Layout and resorted to peddling narcotics again, the officer added.

3 Nigerians held

In another case, sleuths from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) raided and busted a narcotics ring run by three Nigerian nationals, who were illegall y ove r s t ay i n g , a n d MDMA crystals worth Rs 60 lakh was recovered from their possession. The accused were identified as Promise Victor, O j a s M o s e s a n d Uzochukwa.

 The jurisdictional police said the accused were active around Hennur selling narcotics to students and techies, who made up their regular customer base. Of the three, one of them was earlier arrested in a narcotics case by the Amruthahalli police in 2021.

He spent time in judicial custody in prison, and was eventually let out on bail. Later he again returned to peddling drugs, the police said. Cases have been filed under the NDPS Act against the three accused, police said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Kerala police arrested a 36-year-old Nigerian national Okafor Eze Emmanuel for alleged drug trafficking. He was arrested from K.R. Puram in the city