Man held for peddling drugs in Telangana

A 24-year-old man, allegedly involved in drug peddling was arrested in Secunderabad today and narcotics were seized from him, prohibition and excise officials said.

Acting on a tip off, a team nabbed N Navyanth while he was travelling on a scooter with 15 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) blots, 2 gms of MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) and 20 gm of ganja, the officials said.

He had procured the drugs from Netherlands by offering bitcoin to the dealer in that country, a press release said.

The accused had earlier been booked in two cases by the police and another by the Prohibition and Excise Department, the release added.