HYDERABAD: Three persons, including a PhD scholar, were arrested in Ramanthapur on Tuesday on charges of drug peddling. Narcotics worth Rs 1.5 crore were recovered.
The main peddler, Mohammed Shamneed, 23, a private employee from Rasoolpura, was trying to sell the contraband to PhD scholar P Venkatesh, 31, of Malakpet and MBA student Uzair Ahmed, 23, of Attapur when sleuths of Special Operations Team of Rachakonda police, acting on a specific alert, caught them at Endowments Colony.
Shamneed, who hails from Kerala, confessed to the SOT sleuths that he purchased the drugs when he had gone to Goa in April this year when his parents were away in
Saudi Arabia. He stayed in an old guest house near
Anjuna beach from where a caretaker had sold him 20 LSD blots for Rs 20,000. Shamneed consumed one LSD blot and sold the rest to Uzair and Venkatesh whom he knew through common friends.
Cops were shocked as Venkatesh, who had completed his MSc in information technology management, has also finished PhD (
artificial intelligence) from
Sullivan University, Louisville, Kentuky, in the US. “He is working on various software projects of about 90 clients currently,” police said. Apart from 10gm heroin, 15 LSD blots, 1.5kg ganja, Rs 3,000 cash, a Suzuki Access scooter (KL 58 G104) and three cellphones were seized.
The seized drugs
