COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore city police busted a drug peddling racket and arrested seven people, including the son of a sub-inspector in the Economic Offences Wing (EOW).
Police seized drugs worth around Rs 80 lakh, including methamphetamine, MDMA, and ganja.
A Saravana Sundar, Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore city said the gang peddling drugs for the last one and a half years. “We were closely monitoring pubs in the city and detected movement and use of synthetic drug movement.
A team arrested seven peddlers, including the son of a woman sub-inspector and people working in IT sector. They ordered drugs from Mumbai, received them through couriers, and made online payments to their suppliers,” the CoP said.
The arrested persons were identified as K Manikandan (39), S Vinayagam (34), V Krishnakanth (34), M Mahavishnu (28), D Adarsh (24), A Rithesh Lamba (41) and B Rohan Shetty (30), all residents of the city. Mahavishnu’s mother Vijayalakshmi works as a sub-inspector in Coimbatore City. He has completed BE and is a cricketer.
Sundar added that some of the suspects spent the money on a lavish lifestyle, bought land and houses at Teachers Colony and Kovaipudur. The properties will be attached and included as case properties, he said.
Police seized 24.40 grams of MDMA (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, ecstasy), 12.47 grams of MDMA powder, 92.43 grams of cocaine, 1.62 kg of green ganja, 1.01 kg of dry ganja, 1.68 kg of Kush (a party drug), Rs 25 lakh in cash, a currency counting machine, four digital weighing machines, 122 premium liquor bottles, three cars, and 12 mobile phones from them.
All the suspects were produced before a judicial magistrate on Friday morning and remanded in judicial custody. Twelve bank accounts handled by the suspects have been frozen. Police are probing their supplier network.