Mangaluru Ganja Case: Doctor, pharmacy student among 3 more held

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police have arrested three more persons, including a doctor and a pharmacy student in connection with drug use and peddling taking the total arrests so far in the case to 13.  

Among the arrests are three doctors, six medical students, including four women and a pharmacy student. The remaining persons are drug peddlers, the police added.

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The arrested persons have been identified as a final-year pathology student at Kasturba Medical College, a final-year pharmacy student from Kochi and Mohammed Afrar from Mangaluru who works at a fruit shop, police said.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the city police had arrested ten people, including an overseas citizen of Indian origin, a surgeon, a medical officer, MBBS, and dental students on the charges of alleged consumption and peddling of ganja. Of them, two are doctors, seven are medical/dental students from three professional colleges in the city, hailing from various States, and four of them women.

The Mangaluru police had first arrested Neel (38), an Indian-origin person, last week in connection with alleged drug peddling in his flat.

He has been residing in Mangaluru for the last 15 years and was a fourth-year student of a dental college in the city.

Sha spilt the beans as the police interrogated him. Police found over two kilograms of marijuana, weapons, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets.

Others were picked up from hostels, PGs and private residences. Ganja and 9 mobile phones have been recovered from them.

Based on his inputs, police arrested 13 people in the last two days.

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