Piplani police has nabbed three drug peddlers near Sonagiri Park and recovered drugs worth Rs 60,000 from his possession on Tuesday.
After receiving information regarding three men roaming suspiciously near Bima hospital, a police team was dispatched and detained three youths and recovered 6 kg of Cannabis from his possession. The three drug peddlers were identified as Badi Belam Murugun (25), Munni Appan Raganathan (26) and Kumar Perumal (24) of Vellore Tamil Nadu.
Police said that the details of procurement and delivery of the drugs would be made in the further investigation. After the initial investigation, police have registered a case under sections 8 and 20 of the NDPS Act. In the initial investigation, police have recovered three bags carrying 2 kg of Cannabis each.
The source of the drugs and their scheduled delivery to the customer in the city and nearby areas would be probed. The accused were staying in Bajaria area. The three are tenants or used to visit Bhopal as visitors in connection to drug dealing illegally would be investigated.
During the initial investigation when the three were quizzed they acted as dumb and later when they were grilled they started to speak Tamil and further in the interrogation they started to speak in Hindi.
Police said that his local connections have to be searched and during the police remand further investigation would be conducted.
The drug peddlers were nabbed while they were carrying to l drugs and it would be investigated that they were on their way to deliver or waiting for customer.