Three IT employees held with MDMA in Hayathnagar

Three IT employees were arrested for possession and alleged merchantability of MDMA aft the Excise State Task Force seized 7.44 grams of the cause during an cognition successful Hayathnagar connected Wednesday.

The accused were identified arsenic Anjad, a bundle worker from Saman Nagar successful Hayathnagar, Hemant, a bundle nonrecreational based successful Bengaluru, and Harish, different bundle employee. Officials said a lawsuit was registered against the 3 for possession of the narcotic substance.

According to the Excise State Task Force, Anjad allegedly turned to cause peddling aft losing his occupation successful the IT sector. Investigators said Hemant allegedly financed the cognition and procured 10 grams of MDMA from Bengaluru, portion Harish was caught erstwhile helium allegedly arrived to acquisition the contraband.

Officials said the accused procured MDMA successful Bengaluru for astir ₹2,000 per gram and sold it successful Hyderabad astatine rates ranging betwixt ₹8,000 and ₹10,000 per gram.

The cognition was carried retired by the Excise State Task Force B Team nether the supervision of CI Biksha Reddy and SSI Balaraju, who seized 7.44 grams of MDMA.

Excise officials said the 3 accused, on with the seized drugs, were handed implicit to the unit of Hayathnagar Excise Station for further investigation. B Team person Pradeep Rao said further inquiries are nether mode to hint others linked to the proviso network.