The Mangaluru Police in Karnataka arrested 9 folks, together with medical doctors, on Saturday over alleged involvement in consumption and peddling of narcotic substances. Amongst these held, as per information company PTI, there have been additionally medical college students of a non-public school in Mangaluru. College students and medical doctors from Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana and Karnataka had been reportedly among the many arrested folks. Within the span of the final one month, the police in Mangaluru has made twenty-four arrests in drug associated instances.
Earlier this month, the Karnataka Police arrested a person in Mangaluru and seized 16 grams of narcotics, estimated to be price Rs. 1.56 lakh. The accused, recognized as Abdulla Bardila (51), is a resident of Goa and was caught whereas peddling medicine in Karnataka’s coastal metropolis. Cops additionally seized one auto-press clear Polyphone bag containing white shade powder – suspected to be cocaine – weighing 12.64 grams, officers mentioned on the time.
Mangaluru police arrest Goa man for allegedly peddling medicine: Report
Many medicine associated arrests had been additionally made in Bengaluru in the previous few days. Not too long ago, crime department officers arrested a Nigerian nationwide for allegedly peddling medicine within the Digital Metropolis space. The cops recovered 250 grams of MDMA crystals from the accused and seized the narcotic substance. In December, one other 27 folks had been additionally arrested by the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) in Karnataka’s capital for allegedly working a drug racket by way of varied messaging platforms. The 27 folks embrace each peddlers and even customers of the banned narcotics substances.
The Karnataka Police earlier mentioned that they started a mission of eradicating narcotic substances fully from the state and such crimes is not going to be tolerated.
(With inputs from PTI)