Four postal employees held in international drug racket

Bengaluru: CCB sleuths arested four postal department employees for running an international drug racket in connivance with local drug peddlers.

The arrested H. Subba, 34, Ramesh Kumar, 47, Syed Majid, 54, and Vijay Rajan, 58, have been booked under NDPS Act.

They worked in the GPO and Chamarajapet post offices.

Based on the information divulged by a drug peddler, who was arrested by the CCB team recently the CCB sleuth raided the gang and seized drugs worth Rs 20 lakh, including 339 ecstasy tablets, 10 grams of MDMA crystal powder and 30 gram of brown sugar, which they received in foreign parcels from the Netherlands, Canada and the USA.

Kuldeep Kumar Jain, DCP (crime), said that the accused would collect the parcels and hand them over to the peddlers, without the mandatory scanning and other formalities in exchange for money

Inquiries revealed that the accused were involved in the crime for six months. Using their expertise, they would also scan parcels in search of drugs and steal such parcels. They would sell them to the peddlers and drug addicts.