The City Police police arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in the illegal sale of Pentwin Drug.
The police arrested the accused - Mohd. Feroz and Srihari Rakesh on Thursday and seized the Pentwin Drug 1 M.L. Drug of Natco Company of total 4,500 Amples and nine Dispo van syringes. The Pentwin Drug is used by the authorized Medical Practitioners as anesthesia dose while operating surgeries to the patients.
Police say that as per the manufacturers label, Pentwin Drug is a Schedule-H Drug and it should not be sold without doctor’s prescription. However, the accused Feroz used to purchase the drug from Suma Medical Corporation, owned by another accused Srihari Rakesh for Rs. 15/- each ample. He used to sell the same illegally to the needy and drug addicted persons on the higher rates from Rs 35 to Rs 50. The Suma Medical Corporation proprietor Srihari Rakesh used to purchase the drug from the authorized dealer for Rs. 4 per ample.
The arrests and seizure were made by Dabeerpura inspector D Prasanna Kumar under the supervision of South Zone DCP Vineeth Brijlal. The case has been handed over to the Drugs & Medical Control Board for further investigation.
The City Police has appealed to the parents should to take care of their children, who are addicted to drugs. They have also requested the general public to inform to the police if they find any supply or sale of illegal drugs. (INN)
City Police to establish permanent Anti-Narcotics Cell
2011/12/21 16:47:23 The City Police is planning to establish a permanent Anti-Narcotics Cell to check the growing cases of the drug peddling.
This was disclosed by City Police Commissioner AK Khan while addressing a round table conference here on Wednesday. The round table conference was attended by the senior officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau, City Police, representatives of the IT Industry and members from the cine field.
According to the Police Commissioner, the proposed cell will comprise of an inspector, six sub-inspector, 10 head-constables and 30 constables. The cell will have three wings - Technical, Surveillance and Investigation Wing. While the Technical Wing will coordinate with Cyber Crime PS and will assist investigation, the Surveillance Wing will liaise with local police and local Narcotic Cell of the Government of India and will maintain surveillance at vulnerable places like Bars and Restaurants, Pubs, Hukka centers and places of dwelling by foreign nationals. The investigation team will concentrate on effective and early investigation of all these cases in coordination with the other two wings.
As a prelude to the establishment of Anti Narcotics Cell, the Narcotic Control Bureau, Chennai, has started a two-day training programme for the City Police officers on Wednesday. A NCB Team headed by Zonal Director Davidson and Assistant Director Umakanth Misra has started the training session to empower the City police officers on Drug Law enforcement.
The City Police officials will be trained in the nature and incidence of drug abuse and drug peddling, NDPS Act, main sources of supply of narcotic drugs, routes of illicit drug trafficking, particular to AP and country and investigations.
The NCB Chennai has also agreed to impart regular training on emerging drug trafficking trends and investigation techniques to the staff and to supply drug detecting kits.
The Commissioner said that it is noticed that in recent times some antisocial elements including foreign nationals indulging in drug peddling by concentrating on youth celebrities, elite sections of the society in and around Hyderabad City. It is also noticed that some youth of African countries who are visiting Hyderabad on a student VISA or as tourists are indulging in drug (cocaine) peddling by selling the same to youth, celebrities and elite sections of the society at various places like Pubs, Restaurants, Hukka centers and star hotels.
Since 2010, the Hyderabad City Police has busted 17 cases of drug peddling including Cocaine abuse in which 41 people have been arrested. Ten more accused in these cases are yet to be arrested. Of 51 accused, about 29 were foreign nationals.
The city Police is also trying to find out the link between on-line fraud cases like lottery or job frauds and cases of drug trafficking as many African nationals are also involved in these online frauds. From 2009 to 2011, about 28 cases of online fraud cases have been registered involving foreigners mostly African nationals. (INN)
Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of drug offenses on Wednesday, police sources said.
The Grammy-winning soul singer, who was arrested for assault less than two weeks ago but released with a warning, was being held after she turned herself in at a London police station.
"At 1 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Wednesday, a 24-year-old woman attended a London police station by arrangement," police said in a statement. "She was arrested in connection with alleged possession of a controlled drug."
Police declined to give more details.
Winehouse was held overnight in a cell last month but was released without charge after admitting assault by slapping a man with her hand.
Winehouse, whose battle against drug addiction has often overshadowed her recording success, is said to be worth an estimated 10 million pounds ($20 million) in the latest Sunday Times Rich List.
Winehouse did not attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February, but still managed five big wins, including record and song of the year for "Rehab" and best pop vocal album for her breakthrough release, "Back to Black."
2011/6/28 6:25:02 Though, there was no hint of trafficking of Muslim girls to Arab countries since a long time, with the arrest of 6 Sudan Nationals by city police has shocked the city public. Hyderabad police have arrested 6 Sudan nationals on Tuesday, who arrived on student visas. All of they got married with the Muslim girls of Old City in Hyderabad and they are about to leave with the girls to Sudan. However, city police had a tip off from an unidentified person and timely arrested the Sudanese. Poverty forces the girl’s parents to make their daughters scapegoats for Arabs. Police suspects that, many more such cases might have gone unnoticed by them.
2007/4/27 6:04:40 The investigation into the human trafficking has revealed that Hyderabad has been the main centre for trafficking people illegally to the US and other countries. A number of politicians are reportedly involved in the racket which has been going for quite some time.
Some TRS and TDP leaders are reported to be involved in this. The names of some TRDS MLAs and some former TDP MPs like Chandulal, Venugoplachari, former MLA Ramakanth, actor Murali Mohan and minister Damodar are being mentioned in this regard.
Detained at the Dubai Airport for allegedly possessing a banned drug, DJ Aqeel was finally released on Wednesday after the authorities failed to prove that he had consumed the drug through tests conducted on him.
Dubai police arrested him when the airport authorities found a bag of 0.4 grams of Ecstasy, a party drug in his bag. While his wife, Farah Khan Ali explained that Aqeel was falsely framed.
DJ Aqeel’s lawyer informed that Aqeel was produced in a Dubai court which granted bail to him on Wednesday as no trace of the drug was found in the blood and urine samples.
He had gone to Dubai for to perform at a discotheque.
2011/2/11 19:35:15 Veteran actress Jeevita’s brother Srinivas Murali was arrested by city police on Friday while carrying 305 gms. of Cocaine drug. When, she was asked to respond on this issue Jeevita said “Murali is my brother. He is doing his businesses separately. I don’t think that he is involved in such issues. If it is a fact then they have to face consequences. I don’t want to comment further on this issue.”
2011/7/22 9:26:43 Lunger House (Hyderabad) Police have arrested a Nigerian drug peddler Fredric James, Dr.Siddarth and another person while they were carrying 50gms of cocaine and other drugs. They said they were supplying drugs to Tollywood actors Varun Sandhesh, Abhishek and Tollywood producer Uppalapati Ravi. But, later Dr. Siddarth has said he knows Varun Sandhesh but he never supplied drugs to him or he never seen taking him drugs.
Soon after knowing about the arrest, Varun Sandhesh has come to TV9 channel and next is going to NTV Channel to condemn the drug peddler’s statement. In his interview to TV9 Varun Sandhesh has made it clear he has never seen or heard about the Nigerian or the drugs in his life. He agreed that, he knows Dr.Siddarth but condemned his statement of buying drugs from him. He said he doesn’t understand why they were trying to trap him in this case.
Police said they will interrogate both the actors and the producer to know the facts.
2011/11/13 8:32:21 (IANS) Over 20,000 girls belonging to Chhattisgarh's tribal region have been sold by human traffickers in the last eight years in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, Congress leader Ajit Jogi said Sunday.
These girls mainly belonged to Jashpur, Surguja and Raigarh districts and were taken away by human traffickers in the name of jobs and trainings, the former Chhattisgarh chief minister said in a statement.
Expressing serious concern over the rising rate of human trafficking in the state, the leader hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and accused it of "overlooking the problem since it came to power" in December 2003.
He said the prevailing law-and-order situation was "one of the main reasons for rise in human trafficking cases in the state's tribal areas".
Chhattisgarh's vast northern region, including Surguja, Korba, Jashpur, Koria and Raigarh districts are infamous for human trafficking cases. There have been many incidents of men taking away impoverished girls to big cities on the pretext of providing them jobs and forcing them into prostitution.
In a recent case, police Nov 10 arrested a youth in Jashpur for allegedly taking away 20 locals, including 14 girls.
2011/11/30 8:46:52 (IANS) Four children, being taken to Punjab to work as labourers, were rescued from a train in the Uttar Pradesh capital, police said Wednesday. A man has been arrested on charges of child trafficking.
The children, aged 10-13 years, all hailing from Rae Bareli district in the state, were rescued by the Government Railway Police (GRP) after a raid in the general coach of the Punjab Mail Tuesday. Harish Chandra was arrested but his two accomplices escaped.
"On the pretext of education and employment, the minors were being taken to Punjab to perform menial jobs in factories," police inspector Mahendra Singh told reporters here.
2011/6/18 9:02:25 The Lok Satta Party on Saturday demanded that the Union Government empower States to monitor conduct of clinical trials by drug companies.
Party secretary P Bhaskara Rao, in a statement, said that for want of effective monitoring, drug companies could get away by enlisting illiterate and ignorant people as guinea pigs for their experiments.
Clinical trials are no doubt important for advancing medicine he said and added that all precautions should be taken in conducting them since they sometimes led to the death or disability of people being subjected to them.
India has of late become the capital for clinical trials because of the genetic diversity of its people. In addition, India has a vast pool of illiterate, ignorant and poor people who volunteer themselves for the trials even for a pittance. There is no wonder that multinational drug companies view India as an ideal place for cutting down cost and time in their bid to perfect blockbuster drugs.
Mr Bhaskara Rao recalled that more than 1500 people have died in clinical trials in the last two years and added that the drug companies accepted their responsibility in only 25 cases. They paid compensation to the next of kin of some of the victims only after the Indian Council of Medical Research took them to task.
The LSP leader demanded a thorough inquiry into the adverse consequences of drug trials in Andhra Pradesh. No mercy should be shown to drug companies conducting trials in violations of laws, rules and regulations, he said.(INN)
A petition, filed before the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court here has sought a ban on the release of Rohan Sippy's forthcoming movie 'Dum Maro Dum', which has raised much stink in the tourist state.
Savio Rodrigues, a media professional, who moved the Court has pleaded that the release of the movie should be banned as it will have a ripple effect on the state's tourism.
The petitioner has also said that the movie portrays Goa as a destination of sex, drugs and easy availability of women.
"The film is scheduled to be released on April 22, 2011 and given its publicity by the producers, the film will attract criminal minded tourists and offenders and drive away decent travelers and tourists from Goa," the petitioner said.
The bench will hear the petition on Thursday. It names State Chief Secretary, Chairperson Central Board of film certification, M/s Fox Star studios Pvt Ltd and M/s Ramesh Sippy Entertainment as the respondents.
Rodrigues said the movie is against public order, decency and morality and there is clear violation of fundamental rights guaranteed under the constitution of India to Goans.
The petitioner also stated that over a period of years, Goa has been receiving negative global publicity on account of issues relating to drugs, sex and murder in some cases of international tourists.
"Goa has been portrayed in media and in the said movie in particular so as to depict it as destination of drugs and sex, both of which are claimed to be easily and freely available in this state," it adds.
This wrong depiction is attracting and shall attract persons who are drug addicts, paedophiles, sex offenders, drug traffickers and persons engaged in trafficking of children and women, he claimed.
Former tourism minister Fransisco Pacheco also raised the issue during the ongoing state legislative assembly session.
Goa tourism minister Nilkant Halarnkar had told the House that the government will 'seriously' take up the issue with the producer.
2011/10/23 8:22:50 The sleuths of Jubilee Hills Police Station on Sunday arrested two Nigerians who came to supply cocaine to one customer and seized four grams of cocaine from their possession.
The accused Sakiry Oladotum Akinsola and Okechnkwu Ohazurike were arrested when they came near Durgam Cheruvu main gate at Road no.36, Jubilee Hills, to deliver cocaine to one customer.
According to police, the accused Sakiry does spare parts business and settled in Hyderabad and supplies spare parts to Nigeria. He is a regular consumer of cocaine and buys cocaine from one Jackson, a native of Uganda. While his stay in Hyderabad he came into contact with the other accused Okechnkwu Ohazurike who was doing wholesale garments business and also a drug peddler.
Okechnkwu knew some persons who were consuming cocaine and Sakiry used to give him his share of profit for getting prospective customers. Few days back Sakiry brought eight packets containing eight grams of cocaine and on Sunday they came near Durgam Cheruvu main gate to deliver the cocaine to a customer and were arrested. (INN)
Actor Fardeen Khan will face trial in a 2001 cocaine drug seizure case. The Mumbai High Court turned down an appeal by the actor for granting immunity.
However, the Judge said that the evidence does not suggest that Fardeen is a seasoned drug addict.
2012/1/9 13:23:13 Eleven persons were arrested in the Poratangar hooch tragedy case, which claimed 19 lives at Mylavaram in Krishna district.
According to Krishna District Superintendent of Police Rama Krishnaiah, the 11 persons arrested were involved in procuring, manufacturing and supply of methanol mixed water or hooch.
The arrested include, Azmeera Raju, Angothu Murali, Vijay, Koteswara Rao and Sarath Chandra of Kiron traders besides vendors Laxmaiah and his wife Bazi, Bhukya Redya and his wife Dholi, Banavat Laxmi and Lavothu Pagudu who delivered methanol.
Earlier, Prohibition and Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao ordered a judicial probe into the incident. He also ordered suspension of a circle inspector and a sub-inspector of Mylavaram's Excise department. (INN)
2012/2/3 11:58:26 The Puducherry police on Friday arrested four more persons in connection with the recent violence at Yanam town, which led to the killing of a senior executive of Regency Ceramics, and caused huge damage to the company's plant.
The arrested accused persons been identified as Yandamuri Hanumantha Rao, Yerragunta Suryanarayana, Mohammed Khan and Meda Venkatesh. They were later produced before the Yanam sub-court which remaned them to judicial custody for 14 days.
Earlier, five persons were arrested by the Puducherry police in connection with the violence.
Stating that situation in the town was returning to normal, Deputy Inspector General of Puducherry I D Sukla said the police have formed out special teams to arrest some more persons who were involved in the violence. He said two companies of the State police have been deployed in the town as a precautionary measure. (INN)
Fardeen Khan charged with attempting to buy cocaine
2011/10/4 3:36:28
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) A Mumbai court Tuesday found actor Fardeen Khan guilty of attempting to buy cocaine in a case dating to 2001 but dropped charges of posessing over two grams of the drug. The sentence will be pronounced Nov 2 and the actor could find himself behind bars for six months.
"Now, I have been charged only for attempting to buy cocaine. Charges pertaining to the possession of cocaine have been dropped," Khan told reporters outside the court.
"This is something we have been appealing to the court for the last 10 years. I am extremely happy about how things are going," he added.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had arrested Khan in Juhu in northwest Mumbai May 5, 2001 on charges of possessing cocaine. Nasir Shaikh who allegedly sold him the drug and Tony Gomes who allegedly supplied it to Shaikh were also arrested.
Charged under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Khan had, however, claimed that he had attempted to buy only one gram of cocaine as against NCB claim that nine grams of cocaine was found on him and Shaikh.
According to the NDPS Act, less than two gm is considered a small quantity. Under the act, an accused can, at the maximum, face a six-month jail term for possession of a small quantity of drugs.
2011/2/13 0:51:06 Dr. Jeevita Rajashekar’s brother Murali who caught red handed by the city police while buying the Cocaine drugs from a Nigerian drug peddler was sent to charlapalli jail along with four others after the court remands them14 days, for further interrogation of their case. However, before they were shifted to jail, producer Murali speaking to the media people said that, some people whom he believed as his friends have trapped in this case. He is innocent and has nothing to do with this drug business racket. He also told the media that, soon he is going to reveal the names of all other people in the film industry, who were involved in this drug business and consuming the drugs
Trisha, whose name was surfaced in the Nigerian drug peddler’s contacts list, was quite upset for a while for being suspected as drug user. She repeatedly told the media that, she never even saw those drugs in her life and its unfair to drag her name into the scandal. But, media ran behind her for quite a sometime narrating the spicy stories about her mid night parties and alcohol habit. But, with the passing time gradually the dust settles and Trisha is back with her all her spirits.
Speaking to media, Trisha said “I have been accused as drug addict by the media. But, no one has ever explained how can a drug addict get so many film chances? I have number of films in hand and busy doing many films. Is this not enough to prove that I was not guilty? Someone might have sketched this ugly plot to defame me. But, in the end they might have understood that it didn’t work at all, because the industry and the people who closely know about me never believed those rumours. They encourage and stand by me all the way. Thanks, at least someone who put this acid test for me made the people witness my innocence.
The human trafficking episode involving BJP MP Kataria has an Hyderabad angle. A personal assistant to TRS leader is alleged to be involved in the racket. TRS leader Chandrashekar Rao however denied any role into the whole episode.
He however said that if any party leader was involved he would take action. About 70 Gujaratis are supposed to have traveled abroad on fake documents from Hyderabad so far. Each of them have paid anywhere between 10 lakhs and 30 lakhs to the agents for this purpose.
2011/6/17 8:59:41 Axis, a Hyderabad based pharmaceutical company at Miyapur, Kukatpally, which conducted unauthorized drug trials on about 20 poor women working in quarries in Piduguralla of Guntur district, after hoodwinking the government for a long time was finally sealed after seizure by the authorities concerned on Friday.
The company, disregarding a formal permission from the Drug Control Authority of India, allegedly engaged poor and illiterate women as guinea pigs for conducting tests for treatment of breast cancer.
Employing brokers, the company allegedly hired innocent and BPL women and gave them injections after collecting blood samples for a meagre ‘amount’.
It was only later that they came to senses after they developed side effects and took ill.
“It was an aberration of the system,” said Minister for Health and Family Welfare DL Ravindra Reddy who was still unaware of the company which did all the mischief even after months.
Apparently the Minister avoided the media persons at the Secretariat on Friday but the waiting journalists even from upcountry papers persuaded him to reveal the facts related to the sickening incident which would not have come to light at all but for some victims’ severe complaints to a local doctor.
A report was awaited on the entire episode and action would be initiated against the culprit once identified, said the Minister. It was admitted that clinical trials were common in the developing countries.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who held a review meeting here, along with the Minister for Health and other officers, expressed concern over the incident and called for a report on the whole incident.
Meanwhile two brokers, employed by the said company for the last two months to entice the women suffering from abject poverty, were said to have been arrested on Friday.
The ‘trial’ of drug saw the light only after victims developed side effects including extreme weakness and pain.
Later the victims were admitted to the Guntur government hospital.
Earlier, when they saw a local doctor for treatment they were shocked when informed that they were subjected to experimental tests.
The company is understood to have flouted the rules as the drug trials were conducted only on laboratory animals like rats, monkey etc.
The victims had no knowledge of what was administered to them like dangerous consequences in the name of clinical evaluations.(INN)
Though, there was no hint of trafficking of Muslim girls to Arab countries since a long time, with the arrest of 6 Sudan Nationals by city police has shocked the city public. Hyderabad police have arrested 6 Sudan nationals on Tuesday, who arrived on student visas. All of they got married with the Muslim girls of Old City in Hyderabad and they are about to leave with the girls to Sudan. However, city police had a tip off from an unidentified person and timely arrested the Sudanese. Poverty forces the girl’s parents to make their daughters scapegoats for Arabs. Police suspects that, many more such cases might have gone unnoticed by them.
Veteran actress Jeevita’s brother Srinivas Murali was arrested by city police on Friday while carrying 305 gms. of Cocaine drug. When, she was asked to respond on this issue Jeevita said “Murali is my brother. He is doing his businesses separately. I don’t think that he is involved in such issues. If it is a fact then they have to face consequences. I don’t want to comment further on this issue.”
Lunger House (Hyderabad) Police have arrested a Nigerian drug peddler Fredric James, Dr.Siddarth and another person while they were carrying 50gms of cocaine and other drugs. They said they were supplying drugs to Tollywood actors Varun Sandhesh, Abhishek and Tollywood producer Uppalapati Ravi. But, later Dr. Siddarth has said he knows Varun Sandhesh but he never supplied drugs to him or he never seen taking him drugs. 
(IANS) Over 20,000 girls belonging to Chhattisgarh's tribal region have been sold by human traffickers in the last eight years in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, Congress leader Ajit Jogi said Sunday.
The Puducherry police on Friday arrested four more persons in connection with the recent violence at Yanam town, which led to the killing of a senior executive of Regency Ceramics, and caused huge damage to the company's plant.
