Overview

• Telangana excise State Task Force teams made eight arrests in three city operations and seized over 41 grams of cocaine and MDMA across Ramkoti/Abids, Khajaguda and Shamshabad.
• The Ramkoti action recovered 33.3 grams of cocaine and detained two locals and a U.S. citizen, with alleged Bengaluru supplier Mohammed Azeem still absconding.
• In Kondapur, EAGLE Telangana and Gachibowli police detained six at a service apartment party and seized 20 grams of cocaine, eight ecstasy pills weighing 20 grams and 3 grams of MDMA.
• Police identified Rahul alias Sonu of Bangalore as the Kondapur network’s key supplier and Teja as the local organiser, noting concealment in skin‑whitening injection boxes and pooled payments sent to multiple accounts.
• Post-raid tests indicated multi‑substance use among attendees, and one arrested peddler had a prior 2024 cocaine case, as efforts continue to trace absconding suspects and wider links.