Bengaluru: Karnataka police on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old woman who quit her civil engineer's job to make quick money with her boyfriend through drug peddling. One of their associates was also arrested on the charges of drug-peddling.
The accused Renuka is a resident of Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh and her boyfriend Siddharth hailing from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh were classmates in a private college in Chennai. Later, the duo fell in love. Siddharth allegedly became a drug peddler and Renuka joined a private firm. Renuka felt her salary is too less and she is unable to help her family. Siddharth convinced her to join the cannabis trade and make money.
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Siddharth later introduced Renuka to his associate Sudhanshu, who was studying a management course in a prestigious college in Bengaluru. Renuka booked a hotel room in Marathahalli in April last week. Siddharth and his associate provided ganja to her. The duo procured ganja from Odisha through Visakhapatnam. A team led by Inspector Anil Kumar conducted a raid a few days ago and arrested Renuka and Sudhanshu. Police seized a luggage bag, 2,500 grams of ganja in 10 packets and Rs 6,500 cash from the suspects. Meanwhile, police are doing a search operation to nab Siddharth.
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