Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday denied aniticpatory bail to Edwin Nunes, an alleged drug lord who owns Curlies restaurant in Anjuna, Goa, after a session court in Hyderabad declined bail.
On Thursday, Justice Chillakur Sumalatha heard Nunes' application, in which he stated that the Hyderabad police were eager to arrest him thuogh they found no evidence of his involvement in supplying drugs. Nunes said through his counsel that the Osmania University police had filed a FIR with the fabricated story that a drug peddler from Goa, Pritesh Narayan Borkar, caught red-handed selling drugs to users at Habsiguda, had confessed that Nunes was the supplier of the narcotic drugs.
In the last week of September, the sessions court in Nampally had rejected Nunes' anticipatory bail application.
“Apart from my confession, nothing was elicited against me even after one month of their investigation, but the Hyderabad police are attempting to arrest me,” he stated. Assistant public prosecutor Khaja Vizarat Ali, representing the Telangana police, told the court that Borkar was apprehended red-handed by the Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) and the Narcotics Investigation Supervision Wing, two special anti-drug enforcement cells of the Hyderabad narco police (NISW). The special wing police tracked Nunes' involvement in the narcotics supply through his phone contacts and other details.
Vizarat Ali also informed the court that Nunes was facing several criminal charges in Goa, and that a fast track court had granted him conditional release in the case. Sonali Phogat, a BJP leader and popular Tik Tok star, was discovered dead in August in the accused's restaurant in Goa.
