Aman Preet Singh detained in Drugs case, cops identify 30 prospective customers in Cyberabad

Hyderabad: Aman Preet Singh, a small-time actor and brother of actor Rakul Preeth Singh, was detained by sleuths of Cyberabad Commissionerate in a drugs case. Along with Aman Preet Singh, cops have also detained four Nigerians, separately.

The Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau (TGNAB) busted a drug racket where a gang headed by a woman had brought in 2.6 kg of cocaine to Hyderabad for sale and consumption over a period of six months.

Following this, the bureau, headed by senior IPS officer Sandeep Sandilya and team, identified 30 persons from Hyderabad who are prospective consumers. The names of 30 have been submitted to the Cyberabad Commissionerate. What is surprising is, that among the 30 names given, Aman Preet Singh's name figured in the list.

Speaking NewsMeter, a senior officer, on condition of anonymity, said, “Over a period of six months, a gang headed by a woman peddler brought in 2.6 kg of cocaine to Hyderabad. She sold the substance to all high-end customers. The Telangana Anti-Narcotics team traced her and tracked her movements. The woman mostly travelled by flights and trains via the Hyderabad-Bengaluru and Hyderabad-Delhi routes. Whenever she came to Hyderabad, she sold 200-300 grams per customer. The team identified 30 prospective customers and submitted the names to the Cyberabad Commissionerate since it falls under their jurisdiction.”

In a joint operation conducted by the SOT Rajender Nagar and Telangana Anti-Narcotics department, sleuths nabbed Aman Preet Singh and four Nigerians.

TGANB officials seized 199 grams of cocaine

The TGANB officials seized 199 grams of cocaine worth Rs 35 lakhs, two passports, two four-wheelers, 10 mobile phones and other incriminating material from their possession.

The police have also identified 13 consumers: Aman, Kishan Rathi, Aniketh, Yashwanth, Rohith, Sri Charan, Prasad, Hemanth, Nikhil, Madhu, Raghu, Krishnam Raju and Venkat in Hyderabad who are wealthy and are blatantly promoting a sick ecosystem of drugs in Telangana. They are creating a network of supply and demand for drugs in Hyderabad.

The drug operation came to light after police officials raided Flat No 202 in Janab Fort View Apartments in Vishal Nagar, Hydershakote, and apprehended the dealers who supply narcotics drugs to peddlers in the limits of Narsingi PS, Cyberabad.

Details of accused

The arrested have been identified as:

- Onuoha Blessing aka Joana Gomes, a hair stylist (Home Service in Bangalore) and a native of Bissau, Guinesse State, Republic of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa).

- Azeez Noheem Adeshola, a BCom final year student at Nizam College in Basheerbagh, a resident of Sun City, Langer House and a native of Lagos, Nigeria.

- Allam Satya Venkata Gowtham, a lead consultant in Absyz company, Koramangala in Bengaluru. He is also a resident of Bengaluru and a native of Visakhapatnam.

- Sanaboina Varun Kumar, a car driver, is a resident of Hyderabad and a native of Amalapuram, East Godavari District.

- Mohd Mahaboob Shareef, a choreographer in events, and a resident of Bandlaguda Jagir, Rajendra Nagar, RR District.

All of them have been convicted in various cases.

Two drug suppliers are absconding. They have been identified as Divine Ebuka Suzee aka Ebuka, a resident of Delhi and a native of Nigeria and Ezeonyili Franklin Uchenna aka Kaleshi, a resident of Sun City, Langer House and a native of Lagos State, Nigeria.

The TGNAB officials said that Onuoha Blessing aka Joana Gomes frequently travelled to Hyderabad and was convicted for being a drug offender. Her movements and other parts of the operation were passed on to the deputy commissioner of police, Rajendra Nagar, Cyberabad and Narsingi Police who worked on the leads and finally got credible information that the five drug dealers were meeting in a flat at Janab Fort View Apartments for distribution of drugs.

Drug dealer made more than 20 trips to Hyderabad

The kingpin of the gang Divine Ebuka Suzee could have left for Nigeria, the cops said. He has been running a large drug syndicate in association with the above drug dealers.

He sent his main associate Onuoha Blessing to Delhi to transport the drugs to Hyderabad and other cities in India. She travelled by flights/trains to supply the drugs to the dealers, who in turn would reach out to the consumers. As of now, she has brought large quantities of cocaine more than 20 times to Hyderabad for distribution to the above drug dealers, the TGNAB officials said.

“These five drug dealers/peddlers are supplying to needy customers in Hyderabad. Onuoha Blessing is a native of Nigeria but she concealed her nativity and took a passport from a different country i.e. Republic of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) with a fake name Joana Gomes and came to India in 2018 for drug trade. She took a fake passport to leave India, to conceal her identity and avoid police cases and to escape to her country whenever she wanted. She was using international SIM cards for WhatsApp communication,” the officials said.

The accused Azeez Noheem Adeshola is a native of Nigeria and a close associate of Ebuka who came to India in 2014 on a student visa. He was caught in a cheating case when he submitted a fake ID to Osmania University. He was convicted and given two years imprisonment in 2023 by a trial court and then he came out on bail from the appealing court. Then he started drug peddling along with Kaleshi.

Gowtham supplied 2.6 kg of cocaine in seven months

The accused Allam Satya Venkata Gowtham is a native of Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh. Previously, he was involved in a drug case under the KPHB colony police station in 2020.

Gowtham would supply drugs in Hyderabad by frequently travelling between Bengaluru and Hyderabad. He developed close relations with the Nigerian drug dealers and arranged drug deliveries to the local peddlers through Nigerians Kaleshi and Azeez by taking a commission of Rs 500 per gram from the Nigerians. The investigation revealed that he received Rs 13.24 lakhs through Lumbini Money transfers as commission through deposits by Nigerians to his two bank accounts (i.e. HDFC-Rs 4.4 lakhs, ICICI Rs 3 lakhs).

Azeez also received Rs 2.5 lakhs to his wife’s bank account whom he married five months back. She did not have any knowledge about his drug trade or the amounts he was receiving in her account. She has not been arrested.

Azeez was also operating a bank account in the name of a Nigerian woman to receive his illegal earnings. He received Rs 3.34 lakhs as commission to the benami account. By calculating the commission he received, it showed that he supplied 2.6 kg of cocaine to consumers/peddlers in the last seven months.

Varun Kumar was initially a car driver working with one of the consumers Madhu who gave the contact of Allam Gowtham for bringing cocaine to him. Later, Varun Kumar became close to Gowtham and started procuring cocaine through him from Nigerians and became a peddler himself. He would buy cocaine at Rs 8,000 per gram and sell it to the consumers at Rs 12,000 per gram and in the last seven months has earned Rs 6 lakhs through the drug trade.

The police said that they collected information about all the nodes in the entire chain. Out of the 13 consumers mentioned earlier, six have been apprehended and all of them tested positive for cocaine.