A 22-year-old BTech student was arrested from Amberpet in Hyderabad on Monday for allegedly peddling high-end drugs. The police seized 40 stamps of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) from his possession, which contained 824 milligrams of the drug.
The youth, identified as Chanikya, procured the drug from a dealer based in Jammu and Kashmir and then allegedly sold it to users in the city. He was nabbed based on a tip-off, officials said. He would make payments for the contraband using an online payment application. The dealer from Jammu and Kashmir would then send the contraband through registered post, Amberpet police told ToI.
LSD is sold in tablets or in liquid form and is known to be one of the most potent 'mood-changing' chemicals. It is used mainly as an entheogen and recreational drug.
Officials estimate that each of the 40 LSD stamps cost around Rs 2,000 in the open market but are yet to identify the dealer, identified as just ‘Khan’ and where he got the drugs from. The police say they are still investigating the case. The police have arrested the youth Chanikya and produced him before a local court.
Earlier in 2018, the Telangana Prohibition and Excise department had busted a drug racket arresting two for possession of 20 LSD blots and this arrest too was based on tip-offs. These 15 LSD blots were also sent via courier from the then Jammu and Kashmir state.
The police in February that year had arrested a 19-year-old BBA student from the city, along with a Nigerian national and a Goa-based businessman for selling LSD via Snapchat.
The Task Force police of the Central Zone had made the arrests and seized 75 stamps of LSD blots besides three packets of ganja, 30 grams of charas and one gram of heroin. An SUV and four cell phones were also seized.