The inter-State drug peddlers nabbed by the Hyderabad city police on Thursday were following barter system for their illegal business. Ganja cultivated in the agency areas of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh was being exchanged for brown sugar (inferior-quality heroin) in Mumbai. “Further, it was brought to Hyderabad and sold to users for ₹7,000 to ₹9,000 per gram after changing several hands,” Commissioner of Police C.V. Anand said on Friday.
He announced the arrest of four persons, including the local kingpin of the gang, from whom 225 grams of brown sugar and 28 kg of ganja, worth ₹23.61 lakh was seized.
The arrested persons are Chand Shahjada Sayyed (43), a drug peddler from Dharavi in Mumbai, Shaik Abdul Alam Quadri aka Rashad (40), a mobile phone shop owner from Tadbun in Bahadurpura, Shaik Khasim alias Chinna Khasim (34), a drug peddler from Chilkanagar in Uppal and Shahid Kamal (41), a realtor from Bandlaguda in Chandrayangutta.
