Pramesh Jain
The South Division police of Kumaraswamy Layout busted an interstate drug racket and arrested three persons and recovered 70 kgs of Marijuana and 1 kg of hashish oil worth Rs 21 lakh from them.
The accused has been identified as,Kaala Shiva Jamil ,25, Kollu Govinda, 25 and Hari Prasad from East Godhavari and Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh.
The trio were caught red handed while they were waiting for their customers at Jaraganahalli bus stop on Kanakpura road to deliver the goods.
Senior officer told media persons,Our Kumaraswamy layout police inspector,P Shivakumar, received a credible information that three persons are in Jaraganahalli play ground with huge quantity of drugs substances with them and are waiting to deliver to their clients.
After receiving the information Inspector informed the senior officers as ACP,DCP regarding the information, Senior officer asked to raid the place and nab the peddlers by taking additional force with them and handle carefully.
Based on the information,ACP,TM Shivakumar,along with inspector and crime staff rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area by rounding up the ground from all the corners.
The ACP and his team swung into action and after keeping a close watch the team entered the ground and secured three persons and after searching their belongings the team found Marijauna and Hashish oil in their possession the team secured them red handed.
After securing them the team questioned them and during interrogation the accused confessed the crime and the trio said they source the drugs from Andhra Pradesh and deliver it to their contacts in the South and Eastern part of the city in bulk.
The accused said that they would smuggle the narcotics in buses since lock down,as getting the narcotics in the car is risky at the border check posts so they smuggled the drugs in plastic gunny bags.
He even said that they obtained the information about the Andhra Pradesh peddlers a few days ago while carrying out surveillance and a special drive against the drug addicts in their jurisdiction.
Based on the information, the police kept a tab and waited at the bus stop in disguise and caught the trio red handed after they got down from the bus and waited for their clients to deliver the narcotics packets.
The team has recovered totally 75 kgs of Marijuana and 1kg of Hashish oil Worth of Rs.21 lakh from them and a case under NDPS Act has been registered against the accused and further investigation is on to nab other drug peddlers he added.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,Subramanyanagar Sub-Division,TM Shivakumar,PI,P Shivakumar,PSIs,as,Nagesh HM,and Sathyamurthy and crime staff as,Ravikumar, Kempegowda,Bhukanth,Eshwarappa,Ananth Reddy,Anekanth Bilagi,Mahantesh K,Girish,Umesh and Shivaram has been appreciated for nabbing the trio inter-state drug peddler and seizing huge quantity of drugs from them a suitable reward will be given to the team for the exemplary work done by them he added.
