Hyderabad: BTech grad arrested with drugs worth Rs 10 lakh for sale on New Year Eve

HYDERABAD: An unemployed BTech graduate from a well-known private university in Punjab and his friend were arrested by the task force police from outside a popular wine store in Jubilee Hills on New Year's Eve for allegedly selling MDMA, cocaine and brown sugar to revellers. The engineer had drugs worth about Rs 10 lakh with him and had even raised funds through loan apps to buy them. Police seized 100 grams of MDMA, 29 grams of brown sugar and two grams of cocaine from their possession.

The duo, S Leela Naveen Sai and B Sai Teja, both aged 25, was booked for violation of the NDPS Act. Naveen is from Guntur, while Sai Teja, who is into car rental business, is from Ongole.

"Naveen had completed his BTech in mechanical engineering from the university in Punjab in 2019. It was while studying there that he got addicted to drugs," said a task force cop said.
BTech graduate took loans to fund his drug addiction: Cops

To fund his addiction, Naveen allegedly took loans through various apps such as Money View, Just Money, Dhani, True Balance, PayTM post paid, Creditbe, M-Pocket Branch etc., cops said.

"After he returned to his hometown Guntur in 2019, he was hounded by the private financiers. That's when he and Sai Teja decided to move to Puppalguda in the city. They were doing drugs together," a police official added.

Soon, the prime accused realised that his earnings weren't sufficient to either fund his addiction or pay the financiers who had started pressuring him. He decided to sell drugs and even Sai Teja agreed to partner him, cops said.

"The accused decided to earn quick money to clear debts and hatched a plan to sell drugs to customers in Hyderabad. They thought New Year's eve would be ideal to find buyers," a cop said.

Sai procured drugs from his sources in Delhi. He bought MDMA for ₹2,000 per gram and planned to sell it for ₹6,000 to ₹8,000 per gram in the city. Similarly, he was hoping to sell cocaine for ₹17,000 (he had bought it for ₹10,000), and brown sugar at ₹10,000 pr gram which he bought for ₹5,000 per gram.