Notwithstanding the limited human and infrastructural resources, the Telangana Prohibition and Excise officials are investigating the narcotic drug racket all by themselves and arrested one more person on Wednesday.
With the arrest of Brendon Ben, an event manager, the number of arrested in the sensational case rose to eight. However, the kingpin - whose original name even the investigators don’t know - is still eluding them. . The racket busted by P&E officials has created ripples as it revealed that even some school children were among the drug users in the city.
“There were sizeable number of drug users from 26 schools and 27 colleges of the capital,” P&E Director Akun Sabharwal said in an official statement on Wednesday.
Though the accused in the drug racket had links to different States and the kingpin was taking shelter in a northern State, the P&E authorities preferred not to take the help of Hyderabad police in nabbing them.
Sleuths of Hyderabad Police Commissioner's Task Force expressed readiness to extend help in further investigation, but the P&E officials decided to handle the case on their own. Sources in the department maintained that their officials wanted to catch the 'real persons behind the drug racket' and not boast of achievement by picking up a few persons.
They recalled that Calvin Mascarenhas, the first one arrested in this case, was arrested by Hyderabad police Task Force officials in 2013 on charge of possessing ganja. Some P&E officials, unwilling to be named, maintain that the then interrogators failed to take Calvin's case and similar cases reported during that time to their logical end.
“It is clear from Calvin's present confession within a few months of his release, that he got back into drug use and purchase. We don't want to stop with Calvin, but want to go the whole hog, ” they said.
