Bengaluru: Close on the heels of the arrest of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ‘Jouve India’ - a multi national e-publishing firm in Chennai on charges of drug abuse, the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB), Bengaluru zone on Wednesday arrested a young techie, who is working for a multinational IT giant in the city and seized contraband narcotic drugs and cash of more than Rs 3 lakh from his apartment in the city.
On credible information, the NCB officials arrested Venkat Subramaniam a software engineer with Accenture from his apartment in Vijnana Nagar and seized a bouquet of contraband narcotic party drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, and cash of over Rs 3 lakh.
“We have arrested Venkat Subramaniam from his apartment and seized a variety of contraband narcotic drugs like cocaine (3.41gm), 98 blots of LSD, 0.9gm LSD crystals, 0.52gm of MDMA, 2.5gm of hashish and 40 gm of ganja from his possession. Along with the narcotic drugs we have seized cash of over Rs 3 lakh from him, which he may have got through the illegal sale of classified drugs. The accused has been arrested for possessing and trafficking narcotic drugs under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. He was produced before the designated court and remanded to judicial custody for two weeks,” said an official source. This is the third seizure of LSD - a potent hallucinogenic party drug - by the NCB in the city this year.
Subramaniam reportedly told NCB sleuths that he got addicted to drugs during one of his visits to Goa and had later built his network with drug peddlers in Bengaluru. On trafficking of the contraband drugs, he allegedly admitted that he sourced his supply from some African nationals in the city and sold them to his customers. Subramaniam hails from Coimbatore. He had studied in Amrita School of Engineering before taking up a job in Accenture. His mother is a medical doctor and father is a consultant.
