EAGLE Team Cracks Hi-Tech Drug Racket in Hyderabad 'Cocaine In Sandal'

In a major crackdown on narcotics that has sent shockwaves through Hyderabad, the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) has dismantled a highly sophisticated, transnational drug trafficking network operating in the city, involving an engineering graduate, who is also an entrepreneur and cocaine hidden in sandals.

The operation has identified 25 accused and led to the arrest of a prominent hotel entrepreneur and five others. It unravelled a nexus - connecting Nigerian drug suppliers, upscale Hyderabad pubs, and intricate courier routes with techies, doctors, those in real estate and the food and beverages business.

The key accused arrested is a 34-year-old Surya Annamaneni, a well-educated engineering and MBA graduate and resident of Kompally, who owns the 'Malnadu Kitchen'



restaurant. 

Annamaneni's arrest has laid bare a disturbing trend of narcotics consumption and distribution among the city's affluent social circles, involving digital financial transactions and ingenious concealment methods.

Acting on specific intelligence, EAGLE intercepted Annamaneni near his restaurant. A search of his Tata Scorpio revealed a cache of narcotics, including 10 grams of Cocaine, 3.2 grams of OG Kush (Ganja), and 1.6 grams of Ecstasy pills. 

The cocaine, alarmingly, was found hidden in the heel compartment of a woman's sandals, meticulously packed in a pink cardboard box and shipped from Delhi via Shree Maruthi Courier under the alias 'Fatima'. The unit said that the method underscores the escalating sophistication employed by drug syndicates to evade detection.