HYDERABAD: A 34-year-old IT employee, who has been absconding in connection with ongoing investigation into recent drug bust case, was arrested from Dilsukhnagar on Wednesday by Rachakonda police. KA Pavan Kumar Reddy, a resident of Kothaguda in Hitec city, has been operating his own event management business in the city since 2014 after quitting his IT job. According to police, the accused used to visit Over the Moon (OTM) pub in Jubilee Hills, where he came in contact with persons who acquainted him with cocaine.
He went to Goa in 2016, police said, where he came in contact with Nigerian peddler Joan Paul who was earlier arrested by excise sleuths. He was then introduced to another arrested Nigerian peddler Ojukwu Cosmas, a key drug peddler. Pavan used to buy cocaine from Joan and Cosmas and supply it to his customers, police said.
Police said that Pavan used to organise events in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata apart from Hyderbad. He came in contact with models and started human trafficking and supplying drugs. Police had busted a drug and human trafficking gang on July 24 and arrested five Nigerian nationals and a Vijayawadabased woman P Sangeetha (35) who were in possession of a wide variety of drugs, including cocaine, brown sugar and amphetamine. The arrested persons were S Ojukwu Cosmas(30), Joan Okorie( 26), Okereke Cyril Anezi(31), Joan Paul Oneybuchi (34), and Ogunka Henry Okechukwu (31). Since then Pavan Reddy was at large.