Stephan Kayyar
Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (EP)
Kasargod, Jan 2: Manjeshwar Police have arrested five persons on charges of drug peddling and have confiscated 55 grams of MDMA drug found in their possession.
The arrested are Bantwal resident Basheer (27), Kanyana Madakunja resident Kalandar Shafi (29), Talapady resident Preetham (29), Kiran D’ Souza (30) and Kotekar resident Akshay (24). Police have also seized a scooter from them.
As much as 43 grams of the drug was found in the scooter in which Basheer and Kalandar were travelling when the police stopped the vehicle at Manjeshwar Kanwatheertha Toominadu.
Another 12 grams of the drug was found and three of them were arrested when the police stopped the scooter for inspection on the Manjeshwar national highway.