Bengaluru, Sep 28 : In a continued war against drug mafia, the city police have busted an organised drug racket by arresting four persons, including two Iran nationals.
The police have seized around Rs 1 crore worth of drugs including 130 hydro-ganja plants, 12.8 kg dry hydro-ganja and LSD strips.
Javad’s villa was raided on Sunday where he had grown hydro-ganja and seized hydro-ganja plants, weighing machine and dry hydro-ganja stored in container jars.
The police also seized UV lights, LED lamps, vacuum packing containers, an electrical weighing machine, a car and the mobile phones of the accused persons.
Javad had sourced the hydro-ganja seeds through the dark web, rented a flat in the villa and grew them in pots using artificial lights.
The accused used to dry the hydro ganja and sell it to students, IT professionals, party-goers, businessmen and others.
Javad was earlier arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials and Yeshwanthpur police.
The arrested have been identified as Javad Rostampour Ghotb Aldin (34), a resident of Eagleton Golf Village in Bidadi, Mohammadi Barogh (35) of Kaverinagar, both from Tehran in Iran.
Others who have been identified are Mohammed Mohsin-uz-Zaman alias Mohsin (31) of an apartment in Hegdenagar, and Mohsin Khan (30) of Saunders Road in Frazer Town.
Two others involved in the racket identified as Prateek Jain and Jitendra Jain are at large, the efforts are on to nab them.(UNI)