Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The DJ Halli police on Saturday busted an inter state drug racket and arrested a peddler red handed while receiving a consignment of 413 kilograms of Marijuana worth Rs. 2.4 crore from his sources in the city.
However the two accused who had come to deliver the consignment managed to escape .
The DJ police inspector and his team who had arrested a peddler identified as Nawaz while supplying drugs in the city.
Based on his confession the police obtained the information that two accused identified as Firoz Khan and Prasad were supplying the drugs to the local peddlers from Vizag.
Based on the information the police laid a trap and raided a place in DJ Halli where the accused Firoz and Prasad had come to deliver the drugs to their contact Abdul Rahman.
However the police caught Rahman along with the drugs but Firoz and Prasad managed to escape.
Efforts are on to track down the accused while the police are further investigating to ascertain their network in the city.
