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Kerala Hummer horror: Police seize cocaine, arrest actor Shine Chacko at beedi tycoon flat

Police sources said they acted upon a tip-off that Nisham's flat in Kochi is hangout of drug addicts from high profile customers.

The Hummer that Mohammed Nisham  used to attack the guard. The Hummer that Mohammed Nisham used to attack the guard.

A day after he was remanded to judicial custody for attempting to run over a security guard with his Hummer, beedi tycoon Muhammed Nisham has hit the headlines again after Kochi police busted an alleged cocaine party at an apartment owned by him.

While Nisham’s assault on the guard occurred at a residential complex in Thrissur on Thursday, police raided the apartment around 100 km south in Kochi and arrested his friend and Malayalam actor Shine T Chacko and three women, all of them associated with the state’s film industry.

Also read: Guard fights for life

Police said they have recovered 10 grammes of cocaine in powder form from the apartment, but are yet to ascertain its market value.

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S T Suresh Kumar, ACP, Kochi police, said it was “the first time that cocaine was seized in Kerala”.

Also read: Beedi tycoon held for ramming guard with his Hummer car

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The apartment at the Skyline Topaz complex was taken on lease from Nisham by one of the arrested women, Blessy Sylvester, early this month, police added. “Nisham will be questioned to ascertain his role in the network,” said Francis Selby, an Inspector with Kochi police.

The sources said that when police stormed the flat following a tip-off, they found the actor and the women using “cocaine cigarettes”.

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They added that those arrested “communicated through social media networks to arrange such parties in various cities”.

“To avoid police, they kept moving from one city to another in South India and Goa. This was the first party held in that flat,” they said.

Police sources claimed that one of those arrested, Reshma Rangaswami, a fine arts-student-turned dress designer for the Malayalam film industry, was the “kingpin of this racket”.

Reshma has revealed that she had bought the cocaine in Goa during a New Year trip along with Blessy, an associate from Bangalore, the sources added.

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Police have identified the other two arrested as Tinsy Babu and Sneha Babu, both models hailing from affluent families in Kerala.

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