Hyderabad, May 12 -- The former CEO of Omega Hospital in Hyderabad who was arrested for purchasing 53 grams of cocaine, was addicted to drugs and sold property worth Rs 1 crore to pay for them.

Days before Chigurupati Namrata's arrest, the Telangana Anti Narcotics Bureau (TGANB) visited the doctor's residence and informed her family that she was being surveilled. On May 9, Namrata met the courier identified as Balakrishna Rampyar Ram. "She was unaware of still being under police watch," a police official was quoted as saying by Times of India.

The police observed Namrata from the time she handed over Rs 5 lakh to the courier who went to Mumbai and purchased the cocaine from the supplier identified as Vansh Thakkar. Thakkar is a DJ based...