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The EAGLE Force, Telangana, successful coordination with the Chityal constabulary successful Nalgonda, arrested a roadside dhaba proprietor for allegedly selling opium poppy husk to long-distance motortruck drivers connected the Hyderabad Vijayawada National Highway.
The cognition was carried retired connected Friday, January 9, pursuing circumstantial and credible quality astir amerciable narcotics being sold from a dhaba adjacent Chityal village.
The accused, 24-year-old Gurmeet Singh, proprietor and manager of ‘Doon Punjabi Dhaba’, is simply a autochthonal of Bheemawala Road, Babugarh, Vikasnagar successful Dehradun territory of Uttarakhand. Police said his begetter had been moving the dhaba for the past 12 years but returned to his autochthonal spot owed to sick health, aft which Singh took implicit the concern astir one-and-a-half years ago.
Investigators said Singh took vantage of the request for opium poppy husk among North Indian motortruck drivers halting connected the road and began illegally procuring and selling the narcotic substance.
He allegedly purchased the contraband astatine ₹1,800 per kg and sold it to motortruck drivers astatine ₹6,000 per kg, earning a nett of ₹4,200 per kg.
Following sustained surveillance, a associated squad of the EAGLE Force and Nalgonda constabulary conducted a raid astatine the dhaba and recovered narcotics from a storeroom. During questioning, the accused reportedly disclosed that helium had procured 20 kg of opium poppy husk, retired of which 9 kg was seized during the operation. Police said the seized quantity falls nether the intermediate quantity class nether the NDPS Act.
The accused on with the seized contraband was handed implicit to Chityal constabulary presumption for further ineligible action.
