Overview

• Special Task Force teams of the Telangana Excise Department raided the Serene Orchards farmhouse in Medipally village based on specific intelligence and arrested six software employees attending a birthday party
• Officers recovered 0.05 grams of LSD blots, 20.21 grams of hashish, five bottles of Ballantine’s scotch, six mobile phones and three high-end vehicles valued at over ₹50 lakh
• All six detainees—identified as Abhijit Banerjee, Simpson, Parthu, Goyal, Yeswanth and Sevio Dennis—tested positive for narcotics and have been remanded under relevant sections of the NDPS Act
• The farmhouse owner, Aziz, has been named in the FIR and remains at large while the property manager has also been booked for providing the venue
• Investigators are probing disputed substance test results after STF officials denied heroin use despite excise sources reporting initial positive findings