NIB arrests man with LSD stamps

NIB sources said Karthik was working as translator at a private television channel, even as he was moonlighting as a drug peddler. The NIB officers received an information that many college and school students were visiting a house at Vedagiri Street at Alandur, near the Metro Railway station. After confirming that the man was peddling drugs to the youngsters, he was nabbed with the help of a decoy early on Friday morning.

Karthik Anand, a native of Pollachi, had studied BA Visual Communication at a private college in Coimbatore. After working in various media companies, Karthik is now working as a translator at a private television channel in Chennai, where he is translating Hindi serials into Tamil scripts, said DSP Purushothaman from NIB.

He is a drug user himself, using synthetic and psychotropic drugs. As he could not afford the expensive drugs, he decided to bring them from places like Goa to sell these drugs to youngsters, mainly students, at a high margin. With his connections, he found customers, noted the NIB officer.