In a separate incident, an inspector who was allegedly intoxicated was arrested after he rammed his car into a pick-up van.
The accused SI, Kodati Rajendra is posted at Cyberabad's Cybercrime police station. (X)
A Cyberabad police sub-inspector (PSI) and a Hyderabad police inspector (PI) were arrested in two separate offences on Saturday, 26 August.
While the inspector posted in the IT cell of the Integrated Command Control Centre (ICCC) in Banjara Hills was arrested for drunk driving by the Bollaram police, a sub-inspector — deputed at the Cybercrime police station under the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate — was arrested for possession of the drugs he confiscated during a seizure.
As per the FIR, accessed by South First, registered in Raidurgam Police Station, the cops got a tip-off that a few men carrying contraband would be proceeding towards Khajaguda from Manikonda via Chitrapuri Colony Kaman
between 9.30 pm and 10.30 pm on 25 August. However, they had no idea it would be one of their personnel.
The police laid a trap and noticed two men travelling on a black Royal Enfield motorbike from Chitrapuri Colony around 9.50 pm.
While the driver fled, the police nabbed the pillion rider, who was identified as Kodati Rajendra, a PSI at Cyberabad’s Cybercrime Police Station.
During the search, the police found two packets of the banned narcotic substance methaqualone — a sedative-hypnotic drug that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain — in his bag.
A native of Manikonda in the Gandipet Mandal of the Rangareddy district, Rajendra confessed that he seized the methaqualone from a man from Nigeria who was accused in a case in Mumbai.
As per the FIR, the PSI admitted that after apprehending the Nigerian man in Hyderabad, he did not report the confiscation of the drug to his superiors, and instead concealed it at his house.
“Rajendra planned to sell the 1.75 kg of methaqualone to make money. One packet weighed about 980 grams while the other weighed around 770 grams,” Raidurgam Station House Officer (SHO) M Mahesh told South First.
Along with the drugs, the police also seized two phones, a Royal Enfield bike and four SIM cards, collectively worth ₹50 lakh, the FIR said.
The Raidurgam police have registered a case against Rajendra under Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
In the other case, which took place on Saturday morning at around 7 am, Integrated Command Control Centre (ICCC) Inspector Srinivas rashly drove his Fortuner car and rammed it into a pick-up van, which was in the opposite lane.
According to the FIR, which South First accessed, the incident happened at the Fourth Training Battalion, near the Bollaram check post in the Secunderabad Cantonment area.
Srinivas, who was allegedly in an inebriated condition, was reportedly headed to his home in SR Nagar from his friend’s place in Shamirpet.
“Upon examining him using a breathalyser (a device used to check blood alcohol content) after the accident, the reading shown was 200. The car also had four pending challans,” an officer from the Bollaram Police Station told South First.
The permissible upper limit of the blood alcohol limit for a person to drive a vehicle is 35.
The pick-up van driver, identified as Sridhar, is a native of Old Bowenpally. He sustained multiple fractures in his legs and injuries in his hands and waist.
The front portion of both vehicles was badly damaged, and as per reports, the accused inspector and the victim later reached a “compromise” of ₹10 lakh. The PI was to apparently hand this amount to the driver of the other vehicle, but the transaction is said to have not taken place.
The cops seized Srinivas’ car and registered a case under IPC Sections 279 (rash driving), 338 (causing grievous hurt to any person by acting rashly or negligently), and Sections 184 (dangerous driving) and 185 (drunk driving) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
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