Forensic report confirms presence of cocaine residue in NDPS case

The Kochi Metropolis police probing a Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case involving Omprakash, in opposition to whom a number of circumstances have been booked, have confirmed that the residue recovered from a zipper cowl present in his room in a resort at Kundannoor final month was cocaine.

A forensic report confirmed the suspicion. However the newest discovering was unlikely to be of any significance because the police couldn’t transfer for the cancellation of the bail of the accused, together with Omprakash, primarily based on it. For, the seized residue was too miniscule to be booked for non-bailable costs. The gravity of the offences beneath the NDPS Act is predicated on the amount seized, in line with sources.

Aside from Omprakash, the police had additionally arrested Shihas, 55, of Kottarakkara in Kollam, who was arraigned as the primary accused, on October 6. This was adopted by the arrest of 1 Binu Joseph of Elamakkara after his presence was detected by the police in the identical resort. All three managed to safe bail.

The incident hogged a lot media consideration after the remand report submitted by the police claimed that actors Sreenath Bhasi and Prayaga Martin had been among the many 20 individuals who had visited the accused of their rooms. Subsequently, the 2 had been summoned by the police and interrogated extensively.

The police had seized the zip cowl that contained residues of a white powder, now confirmed as cocaine, and 4 litres of overseas liquor from the room of Shihas.

The accused had booked three rooms within the resort. Nevertheless, the rooms had been discovered to be booked by one Bobby Chalapathy, mentioned the remand report.

The remand report mentioned that the arrests had been made primarily based on intelligence experiences that the accused had been into smuggling in cocaine from overseas and promoting it in Ernakulam and different districts for DJ events. Although that they had been in Kochi a number of occasions earlier than, they managed to evade the police, and Omprakash used to ebook resort rooms within the title of others, the remand report mentioned.