Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia
The Madanayakanahalli police on Sunday arrested a gang of three including two students from Kerala peddling drugs to the college students in the outskirts of the city.
Based on a tip off,a team of police raided the place close to Acharya college and arrested Anuprith Salin, 23,his associates Vinayan,21,and cab driver Raghu,29 and recovered the drugs from them.
The accused Anuprith and Vinayan are from Kerala came to city to study and addicted to drugs.They started peddling drugs to earn for their vices and roped in cab driver Raghu.
The trio would source the drugs from a Nigerian national and sell it to their customers majority of them are college students, a senior officer,said .
The police have registered a case of NDPS against the trio and efforts are on to track down their network and the Nigerian who was supplying the drugs to them.
In a similar incident,the Nelamangala rural police arrested a truck driver,Saleem Pasha and recovered 10.3 kilograms of drugs worth Rs.2.5 lakh from him.
The accused was waiting near Anand Nagar cross in the outskirts to deliver the consignment when a team of police based on the tip off arrested Saleem and recovered the drugs.
The accused confessed that he was sourcing the drugs from his contact from the jungles of Odisha and selling it to his clients in the city .
