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The three arrested for selling opium.
Suresh (32), Bhavarlal (30) and Pahad Singh (33), all from Cottonpet are the arrested.
On a tip off, the police arrested them near Ramdev Provision stores when they were allegedly trying to sell the opium. Sureh hails from Dudod in Pali district in Rajasthan and has been running a store at Obaiah galli for the last 20 years.
He would get the opium from Rajasthan and sell it to merchants and their relatives at Chickpet, Nagaratpet, Avenue Road, P S Lane, R T Street and other areas.
Bavarlal and Pahad Singh own watch shops at Chickpet and would purchase the opium from Suresh and sell it to their customers for higher prices, added the police.
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