Prominent actor was sent picture of model; bargaining in chat before handing over the girl; sex trafficking ties of Taslima Sultana

ALAPPUZHA: Taslima Sultana, the main accused in the Alappuzha hybrid cannabis case, is suspected of having close ties with sex trafficking gangs in addition to drug dealing. The evidence for this is the transfer of a model's picture from the phone, seized by excise in connection with the cannabis case, to a film star and the exchange of messages between them in this regard.

Information about the bargaining for the model has been received. It is learned that some messages have been received that suggest that the model was handed over to the film star. Taslima is accused in the case of drugging a minor girl and raping her at a massage parlour in Kadavanthra, Ernakulam. In any case, dealers and middlemen are in a state of panic as preliminary information is out that Taslima's phone has been sent for scientific examination.

Intelligence department begins investigation

Current information is that hybrid cannabis was brought to Alappuzha from Thailand. The intelligence department of the Excise has started a special investigation based on this knowledge. The intelligence department is examining foreign financial transactions and how cannabis was brought to India by bypassing security checks at airports.

Taslima and her accomplice, Firoz, a native of Mannancherry, were arrested by the Alappuzha excise on the night of the 1st of this month with three kilos of hybrid cannabis worth two crores from a resort on the Alappuzha city border. The investigation team has decided to take Taslima, who is in judicial custody, into custody and question her after receiving more details.