Hyderabad: A 19-year-old student from Bengaluru and a 27-year-old private firm employee were arrested on Monday for allegedly peddling narcotics worth Rs 7.3 lakh, police said.Acting on a tip-off, the Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (HNEW) apprehended the duo on August 19 in the limits of Domalguda Police Station, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Task Force) Y V S Sudheendra said in a release.Police seized 12.57 grams of MDMA, 305 grams of ganja, a car and three mobile phones from their possession.According to investigators, the BCA student specialising in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning procured narcotics from Nigerian suppliers and supplied them to the 27-year-old customer, whom he befriended on a social media platform.The drugs were later sold in Hyderabad. A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, police said.
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