Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Sep 17: In separate cases, three persons who were found to have consumed ganja were arrested. The fact that they had consumed the drug was tested and confirmed.

After getting information that a person who seemed to be intoxicated, was behaving indecently near Bank of Baroda branch at Shirva on the evening of Tuesday September 15 evening, sub-inspector of Shirva station, Shreeshail D M, went there and found that the person seemed to be intoxicated. The person, identified as Mohamed Akheil (33), son of Noor Mohammed, resident of Elvyn Emporium Shirva, was produced before the medical officer of forensic science department of KMC Hospital Manipal where it was confirmed that he had consumed ganja. A case was thereafter registered against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances /act.

The police sub-inspector of Manipal station, after growing suspicious about a person having consumed ganja on Tuesday, Riya Prashanth Sangani (22), son of Prashanth Sangani, residing at Manipal, was produced in the forensic science department of KMC Hospital Manipal. After the doctors issued a certificate about ganja consumption, a case was registered against the person.

In another case, Manipal police sub-inspector suspected that Satwik Mohanty (23) who was found near Mannapalla in Shivalli village, Manipal, had consumed ganja. The sub-inspector took Mohanty, resident of Royal Embassy apartment on the End Point Road Manipal into possession and got him checked for drug consumption. KMC forensic science doctor checked him and issued a certificate about ganja consumption after which a case was registered against him.