A 24-year-old man was arrested for smuggling and selling drugs packed in boxes that resembled Oxford dictionaries to evade suspicion, police said on Sunday.
The accused, Goswami Ashish Gir, was found selling cannabis (ganja) at Rs 15,000 per kilogram and MDMA (Methylene Dioxy Methyl Amphetamine) at Rs 4,000 per gram to customers in Hyderabad. He was employed at a garment shop.
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On March 22, the police, acting on credible information, conducted a vehicle check near Uppuguda Jhanda and intercepted Goswami's Maruthi Suzuki Swift car.
When they searched the vehicle, they found 6.255 kilograms of cannabis, 18.750 grams of MDMA, and a snorting kit disguised as an Oxford Dictionary, among other items. The seized drugs were valued at Rs 3.81 lakh.
The accused was earlier arrested in two cases related to drug trafficking and was remanded to Chanchalguda Jail. During his time in jail, he established connections with drug peddlers, Milan Debanth from Odisha and KM alias Sayyed SK from Mumbai, who supplied him with cannabis and MDMA, respectively.
The Chatrinaka Police registered a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and initiated an investigation.
The arrested accused was presented before a court for legal proceedings.
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