Bengaluru Police’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested a couple released on bail after being accused of peddling drugs in the city. Sigil Varghese Mamparampil from Kerala’s Kottayam and Vishnu Priya from Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore – both worked at a tattoo parlour – made headlines in March after they were arrested with 12 kilograms of hashish oil worth ₹7 crore.
They continued peddling drugs after bail, news agency reported. They live in north Bengaluru’s Kothanur and were arrested Monday for dealing at Parappana Agrahara.
Media reports indicate they have been dealing since 2020 and began doing so to maintain their lifestyle. An associate, Vikram, was arrested with them in March.
Together, the trio would sell drugs to college students.
Police told news agency the drugs were brought from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Media reports say Mamparampil and Priya met at a city college when they were students. They later rented a house in the BTM Layout in which drugs worth ₹8 crore were found.