Karnataka chemicals firm MD, out on bail, held for pushing ephedrine

Thane | Wednesday | 16th January, 2019

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He said Madderla gave him drugs worth Rs 4.9 lakh to sell in Mumbai.“Hussain gave us Madderla’s contact number, but it was switched off. “On January 12, we tracked Madderla’s whereabouts when he switched on his alternative number, which we had got through call data records (CDR),” said the police. The police, with the help of their counterparts in Telangana, kept watch. MUMBAI: The managing director of a Karnataka chemicals factory was arrested on Tuesday after he was named as supplier by a Hyderabad man from whom 21kg of ephedrine worth Rs 3 crore was seized on December 30.Shankar Madderla, MD of the Raichur-based Venus Chemicals and Drugs, was tracked down by Amboli police to Telangana soon after he switched on his alternative number on Saturday. But Madderla managed to get bail within six months.His name again came up after Mohammed Ghulam Hussain, 45, a former informer with Hyderabad Customs, and his accomplice Dayanand Muddanar, 32, from Mumbai were caught by cops led by inspector Daya Nayak..