Karnataka: Surgeon, Medical Officer among 10 arrested for consuming, peddling ganja
Mangaluru: The city police have 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 medical/dental students from three professional colleges in the city, hailing from various States, and four of them women, they said.
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According to the police, they arrested Neel (38), an overseas citizen of Indian origin, last week in connection with the alleged ganja-peddling in his flat.
The person is said to have been residing in Mangaluru for the last 15 years and was a fourth-year student of a dental college in the city, they said adding that questioning Neel revealed details on other medical, dental college students and doctors involved in peddling and consumption of ganja, leading to their arrest.
The police said they seized from Neel over two kg of ganja worth Rs 50,000, two mobile phones, a toy pistol, a dagger, Rs 7,000 in cash, a digital weighing scale and other electronic gadgets.
Others were picked up from hostels, PGs and private residences. Ganja and 9 mobile phones have been recovered from them.
The police said further investigation is on to find out whether they were consuming and peddling synthetic drugs among others and to get other details.
Of the 10 accused people, two each are from Kerala, Punjab and Delhi, one each are from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and one is a local person, according to police. They were sent to two-day police custody by a court, reports The Indian Express.
The accused were produced before the jurisdictional court and remanded in police custody for two days.
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