Excise sleuths bust rave party; 9 held with LSD, ganja
Investigators seized 4 LSD blots, 50 grams of OG ganja, and two kg dry ganja from the place. Excise officials said that the rave party was planned by one of the accused Appikatla Ashok Naidu, who had booked a service apartment for it.
The other arrested include Kenger Rahul, Unnati Emmanuel Anil, Sammela Sai Krishna, Nagella Leela Manikanta, Hilton Joseph Rolf, Adapa Yashwant Sridutta, Thota Kumaraswamy and Nandam Sumanth Teja.
Two other accused – Srinivas Choudary and Akhil — are at large. All the arrested are from Mangalgiri, Vijayawada, Kakinada and Rajahmundry. Six of the nine are alleged drug consumers.
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All the accused, aged between 25 and 35 years, have been charged for violation of NDPS Act.
Official said, Rahul allegedly procured the drugs through dark web and later he and Anil supplied it to the rave party organiser Ashok. He works in an IT company and is allegedly a repeat offender.
Cops are probing his dark web transactions.
"We received intelligence about the party at a service apartment and nabbed them prior to the event. Had we delayed our operation, some women would have joined the accused at the venue for the party, which involved drugs,'' said Pradeep Rao, excise superintendent.
Excise officials said that 31-year-old Ashok, who also runs a poultry business and supplies roosters for cockfights during Sankranti, has been under their radar for the last several days.
According to them he had been frequently travelling between Mangalagiri and Hyderabad, and staying at the same service apartment when in the city. Several men and women were spotted visiting him there. "Now we are probing Ashok's activities during his previous stay at the same service apartment.
We recovered unused condom packets from him,'' Rao said. He added that Ashok tested positive for MDMA when he was made to undergo the drug test.
Officials said that the accused have been shifted to the Serilingampally excise police station.
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