Mangaluru: 6 students among 90 drug peddlers paraded

MANGALURU: As Bengaluru CCB tightens investigation into the drug racket in the state capital, around 90 out of the 180 drug peddlers and suppliers identified in Mangaluru City in Karnataka were paraded before the City Police Commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash on Monday. Shockingly, at least six were students.
On the sidelines of the parade, the city police commissioner told reporters that in the past one month, they have been conducting station-wise rowdy parades to find out particularly those who had been involved in communal incidents and incidents pertaining to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS).
Subsequently, this rowdy parade is for only those engaged in the consumption, peddling and even sourcing of drugs and psychotropic substances in and around the City. “This is an important exercise under current circumstances because there is always a war against drugs that has affected the youth. This is also an opportunity to spread awareness and curb the menace, “he said.
Conducted under the leadership of CCB inspector Shivaprakash R Naik, the parade saw the participation of those who had been involved in one or more number of cases or rowdy sheeters. A strict warning was issued to each one and the department will consider booking repeated offenders under the Goonda Act.