'Cocaine In Sandals': Inside Hyderabad's High Society Drug Cartel, Hotelier Held
Telangana's EAGLE and Cyberabad police busted a high-end narcotics network in Hyderabad, arresting an entrepreneurs and five others linked to international cartel.
In a major crackdown that has shook Hyderabad's elite social circuit, Telangana's newly inducted Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE), along with Cyberabad police, has exposed a sprawling, high-end narcotics network operated by educated entrepreneurs and fuelled by international cartels.
The nexus' web connects drug suppliers, upscale Hyderabad pubs, and intricate courier routes with techies, doctors, those in real estate and the food and beverages business. Police identified 25 accused and led to the arrest of one hotel entrepreneur and five others.
A team from Cyberabad Narcotics Police Station acted on a specific intelligence and intercepted a 34-year-old man, key peddler and consumer, near his restaurant in Kompally on July 7 while he was travelling in a car and upon a search 10 grams of cocaine, 3.2 grams of OG Kush , and 1.6 grams of Ecstasy pills were recovered, a release from EAGLE said.
The arrest has unraveled a deep-rooted, transnational drug network involving international suppliers, pub-based consumers, courier delivery of narcotics, and digital financial transactions, it said.
The cocaine was hidden ingeniously in the heel compartment of a ladies footwear, packed inside a pink cardboard box, and sent through courier from New Delhi under the alias sender 'Fatima". This method of concealment demonstrates a growing sophistication in narcotics logistics aimed at bypassing routine checks, the release said.
A case has been booked under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
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July 09, 2025, 23:58 IST
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