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3 drug peddlers held for selling fake cocaine

Update: 2018-04-10 10:19 IST

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda police apprehended three drug peddlers and seized five grams of sleeping pills powder (fake cocaine powder) here on Monday.

The arrested persons were identified as Sachin Rawat (27), Kacham Prasad Rohith (21) and Michel Amal Raj (30). All residents of Srinagar Colony of Tirumalgherry.

According to police, the accused were addicted to drugs and used to procure the same from Goa. They were also earning money by selling some quantity of their contraband. A few days ago, they were exhausted of drugs and money, and hatched a plan to earn money by securing original cocaine from Goa. 

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However, they obtained sleeping pills through deceitful means and made the pills into power to dupe their customers under the name of cocaine. 

“They packed the same way that they to do for cocaine. If anyone consumes the high dosage of sleeping pill, they would feel drowsy,” said G Naveen Kumar, the taskforce Inspector.  A case has been registered under Section 420, 406 of IPC with Neredmet police, and further investigation is on.

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