Overview
- Rajendranagar police and the Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing arrested Yemeni national Al-Aqar Abdurabu and Palestinian Hasan W. A. Hashem, seizing 150 grams of MDMA, a knife and four phones valued at about Rs 25 lakh.
- The pair face cases under the NDPS Act and section 14 of the Foreigners Act after their apprehension within Rajendranagar police limits.
- Investigators say Abdurabu ordered MDMA and cocaine through messaging apps with online payments to an absconding Nigerian supplier, while distribution involved dead drops, direct handoffs and occasional private bus consignments.
- Police records show Abdurabu had multiple prior NDPS arrests and was absconding in two cases, while Hashem, a Bengaluru-based Ludo game content creator, had a 2022 case under the NDPS and Foreigners Acts.
- In a related regional crackdown, Mangaluru police arrested six suspects in two cases tied to supplies for students, seizing MDMA and hydro weed as probes examine Bengaluru transit links and a Dubai-based arranger allegedly sending contraband by air.