Three drug peddlers arrested

HYDERABAD: In yet another major catch, city police arrested three drug peddlers and seized 900 grams of pyschotropic substances from them. The materials seized are used to prepare party drugs like cocaine and heroin, police said.This is the seventh drug racket busted in the city in the last four months, police said adding the pyschotopic material seized was in its raw form. “It is used to prepare various party drugs like cocaine, heroin among others. The samples were sent to the Forensic Sciences Laboratory and it was confirmed they are pyschotropic substances,” they added.According to West Zone deputy commissioner of police Stephen Ravindra, Jubilee Hills police got specific information that three persons were trying to sell pyschotropic substances in the city and laid a trap for them.Through an informant, police contacted one of the accused, Shaik Yahiya, and fixed a deal with him to purchase 900 gm of pyschotropic substances for `14 lakh.When Yahiya and his associates came near SVM Mall on Jubilee Hills road no 36, they were arrested. Apart from Yahiya Khan of Nalgonda, two others, T Santosh Kumar of Ramanthapur and V Mahesh Goud of Vanasthalipuram were also nabbed.Police said they bought the pyschotropic substance from their common friend, Ram Babu, a BSc (Nursing) student in Visakhapatnam. “We came to know that Ram Babu brought the material through one Mobin of Kerala.We are trying to ascertain whether there is any gang involved in manufacturing of cocaine and other narcotics in the city,” Stephen Ravindra said.The DCP also said police would keep a close vigil on parties ahead of the New Year and also on DJ's coming to the city to perform. “We will verify their antecedents. Similarly, city police asked their Cyberabad counterparts to step up vigil and friskings at pubs and parties,” he added and claimed police had received information that several partyanimals were planning to go to either Goa or Bangalore for the New Year with the police intensifying their vigil here.  A special team of the Central Crime Station (CCS) is pursuing the cases related to drug seizures and arrests by the city police. The cases are in various stages of trial and all the accused, except in the case of film star Ravi Teja's brothers, are still in judicial remand.More than one kg cocaine and other narcotic substances were recovered from peddlers in the past four months and foreign nationals were also caught.