Drug bust: School kids high on LSD

HYDERABAD: Excise officials on Sunday busted a three-member gang peddling drugs, including LSD, exposing the dark underbelly of the city where several school students were among their clientele. They recovered 700 dots of LSD worth Rs 20 lakh and 35gm of MDMA worth Rs 1.4 lakh from the peddlers.

Calvin Mascrenhas, 29, Mohammed Abdul Wahed, 20, and his elder brother Mohammed Abdul Quddus, 29, were arrested with contraband by the excise wing of task force from various parts of the city. WhatsApp messages on mobiles seized from peddlers give a peek into the murky world of school-going addicts. "I liked the drug. It gave me a nearly 12-hour high. I want more, can u arrange?," a class 9 girl student from a prominent school in Hyderabad, pleaded in her message to a drug peddler on his WhatsApp.

Calvin Mascrenhas, a Goan, and two others from Hyderabad have a common conduit. And they have been getting drugs through courier from

Chicago

. "The trio, after collecting the drug, were in turn selling it to addicts, including affluent school and college students," prohibition and excise enforcement director

Akun Sabharwal

said at a media briefing here on Sunday. The two brothers are from

Chandrayangutta

, while the Goan stays at Bowenpally.