Three persons including a woman were nabbed for drug trafficking and recovered 40 kg of cannabis and `90,000 cash at Alpana talkies trisection on Friday.
The City Superintendent of Police Hanumanganj Navratan Singh said that at around 7 pm an auto rickshaw driver tipped off regarding drug dealing by the passengers. Acting on the tip off a police team was rushed to the spot and nabbed the miscreants.
Singh told that around 40 kg of cannabis and `90,000 in cash was recovered from their possession. The money was meant for the payment of the cannabis.
The three were identified as Yasmeen (35) of Chola Mandir, Rakesh (26) and Sai Kiran (21) of Varangal Andhra Pradesh. Yasmeen’s husband Sanju Siddhqui who hails from Varangal Andhra Pradesh instructed her to provide the money for collecting the delivery.
Sanju works as auto rickshaw driver and is involved in drug trafficking in the past although no past record of Sanju was found but he was involved in the illegal drug trafficking for long. Earlier he used to work as labour but later he started illegal drug trafficking.
Rakesh and Sai Kiran brought the consignment and took an auto rickshaw from the pre paid booth but instructed the auto rickshaw driver to stop the auto rickshaw near Alpana Square where Yasmeen was waiting for them. When the auto rickshaw driver was hinted that the three are dealing in drugs he informed the police.
A case under NDPS Aact has been registered by the police and the three would be interrogated to unearth the customers across the State capital and State.