Overview

• Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing apprehended 11 suspects on July 23 during three separate operations across the city’s drug distribution hubs.
• Authorities seized 386 grams of narcotics – 276 grams of cocaine, 100 grams of mephedrone and 11 ecstasy pills – plus a country-made pistol with six live rounds valued at over ₹82 lakh.
• One raid dismantled a cocaine pipeline that sourced drugs via maritime routes, routed them through a foreign intermediary and Mumbai-based peddlers before reaching Hyderabad consumers.
• A 28-year-old software employee was arrested in Bollaram with 10 grams of cocaine and 11 ecstasy pills procured from Bengaluru and Goa.
• Multiple FIRs under the NDPS Act and the Arms Act signal ongoing probes into the wider supply chains and financial conduits of the trafficking network.