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Mephedrone worth Rs 54 crore, ganja chocolates seized in Telangana
Police in Telangana seized 27 kg of mephedrone worth Rs 54 crore in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district and arrested four persons on August 8. The contraband was being transported to Nagpur. Separately, the…
The Story in Brief
Police in Telangana seized 27 kg of mephedrone worth Rs 54 crore in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district and arrested four persons on August 8. The contraband was being transported to Nagpur. Separately, the State Task Force caught a 39-year-old man with 4.2 kg of ganja chocolates in Rangareddy district, and EAGLE arrested a 30-year-old driver with 200 ml of hash oil worth Rs 2.5 lakh.
The mephedrone was manufactured in a lab near Kondamadugu between August 5 and 7. The four accused include the alleged financier, manufacturer, and lab manager. The hash oil peddler, Burse Narendra Srinivas, had five prior NDPS cases and procured the oil from Odisha via Snapchat. All suspects have been handed over to police for legal action.
The Indian Opinion
Three seizures in two days suggest the drug trade in Telangana is anything but sporadic. The EAGLE unit caught a repeat offender who used Snapchat and evasive travel tactics, showing dealers are adapting faster than enforcement. The mephedrone lab points to industrial-scale production, not just street peddling. The real test will be whether police arrest the absconding lab owner and the Odisha supplier, or whether these are only the expendable links.
Sources (3): siasat.com, siasat.com (2), siasat.com (3)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
