Farmhouse drug bust: AP's TDP MP tests positive for meth

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh's sitting TDP MP Putta Mahesh Kumar tested affirmative Sunday for the banned substance methamphetamine (meth) successful a humor trial ordered aft what investigators allege was an effort to dodge a cause screening astatine a farmhouse enactment raided by Hyderabad Police the erstwhile night, reports Srinath Vudali. The Eluru MP's trial effect took the fig of high-profile guests failing cause checks astatine the Moinabad property, owned by erstwhile Tandur MLA Pilot Rohith Reddy of BRS, to six retired of 11. Delhi-based businessman Namith Sharma, whose urine samples were recovered to incorporate traces of cocaine during Saturday's raid, has besides been charged with attempt-to-murder and assault.MP faked cause trial with h2o illustration during farmhouse bustHe has been booked nether sections 109 and 131 of the BNS for firing astatine constabulary with a .32 revolver belonging to Rohith’s member Rithesh Reddy Pajugula.

Apart from Rohith and MP Mahesh Kumar, those accused of substance maltreatment are Rithesh, Namith, businessman Tiruveedula Arjun Reddy and advocator Kaushik Ravi. “All 11 radical astatine the farmhouse enactment person been charged with usurpation of the Telangana Prohibition Act. We person invoked the NDPS Act against the six who person tested affirmative (for meth oregon cocaine). Three of them — Namith, Rohith and Rithesh — additionally basal accused of violating the Arms Act,” Moinabad DCP Yogesh Gautham said.

Rohith, Namith and Rithesh person been arrested portion Mahesh Kumar and the different 2 guests received bail.

They person each been asked to sojourn a deaddiction centre, an authoritative said. During Saturday night’s cause bust, MP Mahesh Kumar cleared the urine trial aft allegedly filling his illustration cupful with h2o from the washroom alternatively of urine. “A humor trial conducted Sunday revealed meth. The aforesaid trial confirmed substance maltreatment by the different 5 who tested affirmative for cocaine,” said SP R Girdhar of the state’s Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE).

CM N Chandrababu Naidu ordered an interior enquiry by TDP, with instructions to Mahesh Kumar to enactment distant from enactment events “until the substance is clarified”, sources said. MP has contested the allegations and said helium volition “come retired clean”. BRS moving president KT Rama Rao said helium was consenting to acquisition a cause trial astatine immoderate time, responding to Telangana PCC main Mahesh Kumar Goud’s request that each nationalist representatives beryllium enactment done specified checks. Saturday night’s raid progressive a squad from EAGLE and Future City Police scaling the bound partition of the Moinabad farmhouse — astir 30km from Hyderabad — to find the high-profile gathering connected couches astir a swimming pool, allegedly surrounded by hookah pots, liquor and drugs. Police seized astir 2 grams of a achromatic substance. They fishy a information of the drugs was flushed. A packet confiscated from Rohith’s operator Sharath Kumar has been sent for forensic examination.

Investigators judge some cocaine and meth were utilized astatine the party. The seized cause was allegedly brought by Kaushik from Shimla done a contact.