BENGALURU: The detention of two ganja consumers helped Tilaknagar police bust a racket involving five students and two peddlers from Assam. Cops seized 53kg of ganja from them.
Abhishek Atul Singh and Sudarshan Srinivas, who were allegedly high on weed, were detained at 10.30pm on September 3 near a college. On interrogation, they confessed to have purchased the drug from Nachiketh S, 19, of Banashankari.
A team headed by inspector Anilkumar GS arrested Nachiketh, son of a civil engineer, the next evening when he had come to sell ganja. Police seized 250 grams of the drug from the BCA student. “Nachiketh sourced it from BBA student Prashanth of Jayanagar. He used to purchase drugs from Atithya Vora, a BE student,” an officer said.
Accused’s father runs IT firmPolice raided Vora’s residence and seized 1,250 grams of ganja, 25 grams of hydroganja, MDMA tablets and LSD strips. Ganja plants were being grown in eight pots on the terrace.
Vora is from a wealthy family in Gujarat and came to Bengaluru to study BE. His father owns a software firm in Rajkot. Vora initially started consuming ganja and later got addicted to it. He then began selling it to college students. He’d purchase it from BCom student Kothari and BBM student Nagaraj Rao. He also bought drugs on the dark net. Later, Kothari, son of an apparel businessman in the city, and Rao were taken into custody.
Main peddlers from AssamAs per information given by Kothari and Rao, police zeroed in on Khairul Islam, 20, of Malur and Mohammed Farooq Ahmed, 31, of HAL, both natives of Assam. They were the main peddlers, who purchased drugs from Odisha and supplied them regularly to these students.
They were nabbed while trying to sell ganja in Jayanagar on September 11. The two, who worked as security guards and food-delivery executives, were in possession of 52 kg of ganja worth Rs 15 lakh and a car.
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