The EAGLE Force, along with Abdullapurmet Police, nabbed a drug peddler and seized 200 ml of hashish oil worth around Rs 2.5 lakh at the Outer Ring Road (ORR) on the Vijayawada-Hyderabad highway on Saturday.
According to police, the suspect, Burse Narendra Srinivas (30), a driver and resident of Balapur, Ranga Reddy district, is a native of Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh.
According to the police, Srinivas allegedly came into contact with a supplier, Hari from Paduwa in Koraput district of Odisha, through Snapchat and started procuring hashish oil from him for sale among customers in Hyderabad and surrounding areas.
The suspect reportedly travelled to Odisha on August 2 and purchased two bottles containing 200 ml of hashish oil for Rs 9,000. While returning to Hyderabad by bus, he was intercepted by EAGLE Force and Abdullapurmet Police after getting down at the ORR, said Sandeep Shandilya, Director, EAGLE Force
