Hyderabad, Sept. 5 -- Hyderabad police on Friday cracked down on a city-based drug network, arresting nine individuals that included a practicing surgeon, an IT recruiter, and a sex worker.

The breakthrough came after a raid at a flat in Chilkalguda, where police apprehended Ramakanth alias Kiran (44), a native of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. According to officials, Ramakanth was a well-known drug peddler who had allegedly procured 100 grams of MDMA from a Nigerian contact in Bengaluru and transported it to Hyderabad for distribution.

Investigators revealed that he, along with his associate M. Prasad (30) of L B Nagar, had been selling the contraband to select clients in the city. The arrests followed credible intelligence inputs about the ...