Bengaluru: Drug peddler’s phone helps cops nab 8 addicts

BENGALURU: A drug peddler’s confiscated mobile phone has led to the arrest of at least eight drug addicts since Monday evening. Jayanagar police arrested Eshwar Yelchur, 24, on April 22 at Jayanagar 5th Block, when he was smuggling ganja to Whitefield and recovered 245 grams of the drug . Yelchur’s associate Gopi alias Gopalakrishna, 40, was nabbed from his Uttarahalli home on April 24.
“Gopi’s customers used to contact him on his mobile phone and we told Gopi to ask them to come near Jayanagar Metro station to collect the contraband.We then arrested eight persons on Monday and Tuesday. Three separate cases have been registered against them,” an officer said.
Sripurna KS, 39, of Girinagar, Suresh S, 28, of Srinagar and Sharath B, 30, of Banashankari 2nd Stage were arrested around 7pm on Monday. Within 30 minutes, three more persons — Ajay Govind, 35, of Girinagar, Hari Prasad, 25, of JP Nagar 8th Stage and Mohan Babu, 25, of Tavarekere — were picked up.
Mayur, 28, of Malleswaram and Sanjay K, 24, of Nagarabhavi were arrested on Tuesday evening. Sripurna is a businessman and others are employees in private firms.