Unemployed techie from Hyderabad dies of overdose after drug binge | Hyderabad News

The 23-year-old is learnt to have overdosed in the city soon after returning recently from a drug binge in Goa with his addict friends (Representative image)

HYDERABAD: In a stark testimony of consequences of drug addiction, a young qualified engineer from city overdosed on a cocktail of drugs and died a couple of days ago after nearly two weeks in a government hospital.
The 23-year-old is learnt to have overdosed in the city soon after returning recently from a drug binge in Goa with his addict friends. He has been unemployed for the past two years.
Doctors said that the cocktail of LSD blots, ecstasy, cocaine and ganja that the youngster overdosed on had shot his nervous system, making him incapable of performing the most basic movements. A video capturing the man’s desperate struggle was played at a press meet on Thursday by Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (H-New) DCP G Chakravarthy to highlight the dangerous lows of getting high on drugs.
While the man’s drug addict/peddler friend Prem Upadhyay has been arrested, three other addicts – a software engineer, a guitarist and a BTech student – have been named as accused. They had all gone to party in Goa. Cops seized 6 LSD blots, 10 ecstasy pills, 100 grams of hash oil and 4 phones from Prem.
“Whoever has information related to drugs or addicts, please share it with us so that we can save them as well as their families. We will protect the identify of the informant,” additional commissioner of police (law & order) DS Chauhan said at the press meet
“Prime accused Prem has been addicted to drugs since his college days. Later, he turned peddler to make money. He used to buy hash oil from one Lakshmipathy at Rs 1,000 for 5ml which he sold for Rs 3,000. Prem used to visit Goa frequently to procure LSD blots and ecstasy pills for his customers in the city,” a cop said, adding Lakshmipathy is still at large.
Chauhan said that it was difficult to curb the problem at the source in Goa as there jurisdiction was limited to Telangana.
“But there are cases where we have been able to arrest peddlers from such areas too,” Chauhan said.