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Telangana: Police bust inter-state drug peddling racket, arrest 4

Hyderabad, Apr 29 (UNI) The city police have busted an inter-state drug racked by arresting four people, including two city-based peddlers, police said here on Tuesday.
On credible information, the city police jointly with the HNEW (Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing) team and the Nallakunta police on Monday conducted joint operation and nabbed – inter-state drug supplier Harshvardhan Shrivastava alias Harsh (30) from Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) and inter-state drug peddler Srinivasa Rahul (30) alias Rahul, resident of Chennai, and local peddler Abhishek (26), a software employee, and sub-peddler Dhawal, an architect (both from Secunderabad).
Seized 1,380 grams of hydroponic marijuana, LSD blots (44), six mobile phones, two motorbikes and other material, worth Rs 1.4 crore from their possession, said P Vishwaprasad, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes and SIT), Hyderabad City, in a release here.
Harshvardan Shrivastava sourced high-quality cannabis from the darknet marketplace “Dread Market” using encrypted platforms like Signal App. He acted as a middleman, buying the drug at Rs 15,000 per ounce and selling it for Rs 25,000 through courier services. Payments were made via cryptocurrency and hawala, funding his lavish lifestyle.
Srinivasa Rahul, initially consumed marijuana, but later became a transporter, sourcing it through Snapchat and supplying it to peddlers in Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Abhishek, an IIIT-Raipur graduate, procured the drug from Harshavardan via Signal App and sent money through hawala. He supplied drugs to Dawal in Secunderabad and other customers by hand at higher prices to earn easy money.
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