Team Herald
PANJIM: The Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) police conducted its second raid within a span of 24 hours again at Anjuna and arrested a South Indian man with narcotics worth Rs 2.5 lakh. The contrabands include cocaine, charas and DMT.
With this, the total number of narcotics seized during the last two days was totally valued over Rs 1.27 crore.
On Monday night, the ANC had conducted its biggest LSD bust and during interrogation and further follow up, the ANC police zeroed in on one of his contacts living near German Bakery and accordingly laid a trap and apprehended the accused who is in his early 30's and was found possessing variable quantities of charas and cocaine.
The biggest surprise came when the accused was found with commercial quantity of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) which is one of the most dangerous and potent synthetic hallucinogen. Two grams of DMT is considered as commercial quantity and it is mostly used in spiritual ceremony known as ayahauska ceremony which people conduct in isolated hinterland where DMT is mixed with different herbs and administered orally or through inhaling the smoke.
The ANC has urged locals to keep an eye on such ceremonies and advertisements where DMT is mixed. The drug is so potent that a gram of the drug is enough to intoxicate and give a hallucinating trip for 20 persons.
The arrested accused was living in Goa since the last 10 years and was previously arrested in a drug case in his native place for possession of LSD. The raid was supervised under PI ANC Sajith Pillai and under the leadership of DySP (ANC) Nerlon Albuquerque and SP (ANC) Tiknam Singh Verma, IPS and conducted by PSI Dindayal Redkar and staff of ANC police station.