CCB crack down on drugs and narcotic peddlers in city

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The Anti-Narcotics Wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested a 26-year-old swimming coach and recovered 5.5 kg of marijuana worth Rs 10 lakh from him, the Bengaluru police said on Tuesday.

The accused was a native of Kerala working as swimming coach at a private club in Begur, the police said and claimed that the accused had been residing in the city for the last eight years.

According to the police, in order to make quick money he sourced narcotics from local peddlers and sold it to his contacts.

Based on a tip-off, a team of CCB officials raided his place and booked him under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.

In a separate incident on the same day, the police, based on a tip-off, picked up a person from a rented accommodation in Bagalgunte and recovered 291 e-cigarettes worth Rs 22.35 lakh from the place.

The police said that among those seized, 240 were banned e-cigarettes that were illegally imported from foreign countries.