On Wednesday, the CEO of a multi-national company related to E-publishing, was nabbed on Wall Tax Road, Chennai, for the possession of 3.88g of the narcotic cocaine, whose worth is Rs.20000.
According to the reports, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials pounced on Sanjiv Bhatnagar, the 50-year-old head of Jouve India Pvt Ltd, as he was taking delivery of the drug, packed in a parcel, at SMPK Cargo and Courier Services on Wall Tax Road around 3 pm. He was taken into custody along with his driver P Tulasi. Sanjiv was later remanded in judicial custody.
Sanjiv did not return to the office, after leaving the the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) campus on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in Taramani around 1.30 pm with his driver. Akiladeshwari, his wife who was panicked by the incident, lodged a complaint with the Taramani police.
Presently Sanjiv and driver were in the custody of NCB and undergoing the investigation. According to the NCB zonal director Prem Anand Sinha , Sanjiv ordered the cocaine through a website, was getting it from a Bengaluru-based supplier through the courier service for the past one year. "He confessed that the seized drug was for his personal use.
The drug traffickers, who supply narcotics for rave parties, were setting up bases in the state by joining educational institutions in some capacity and getting involved in various activities, including the sports.
By Phani
