Former Facebook employee-turned-drug peddler held for home delivering contraband in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The excise enforcement team has arrested a former Facebook employee who turned narcotics peddler for home delivering contraband to his clients and seized 830 grams of hashish oil along with 1.2 kilo ganja from his possession. The accused worked as a Swiggy food delivery executive after he lost his job in Facebook.
On a tip-off, the excise sleuths intercepted Motilal Narsing Balaji Singh (35) of Kavadiguda at Shivlal Nagar in Dhoolpet and seized 83 small plastic containers, each with 10 grams of hashish oil and 1.2 kilos of ganja from his possession.A bike, a cell phone and a digital weighing machine were also seized.
During the interrogation, the sleuths were startled to know that Singh finished MS from Canada and had worked for Facebook. “Balaji confessed that after finishing engineering in the city he pursued MS in Canada in 2011 and subsequently worked for about two years in Facebook’s Hyderabad office. He was addicted to ganja and after losing his job, he remained unemployed for about three years. By then he was married and has children. Due to family pressure, he started working as a Swiggy delivery executive. A year back, he left that job and started home delivering ganja to customers,” said N Anji Reddy, assistant prohibition & excise superintendent.
Initially, Balaji started procuring ganja from Sateesh Singh and Raj Chander of Dhoolpet for Rs 8,000 a kilo. Recently, Balaji met Narsipatnam based peddler Narsing and procured one kilo hashish oil for Rs 20,000 and 3 kilos of ganja at Rs 4,000 a kilo.
“Balaji has been home delivering the products to clients, who are mostly software employees and students staying in hostels. He has been charging Rs 1,000 for 10 grams of hashish oil and Rs 600 for 15 grams of ganja,” Anji Reddy said. The accused has been sent to judicial remand.