Police form special team to crack down on drug peddlers

Coimbatore: The city police have formed a special team to nab a group of young men, who were found using an opioid at Zam Zam Nagar in Podanur on Thursday.
Kurichi village administrative officer S Baladuraisamy, who received a tip-off about a 10-member gang using drugs on an open ground on Thursday evening, rushed to the spot with his assistant. “They found the men powdering Tydol tablets, dissolving it in water and injecting themselves. The men ran away when the official confronted them,” a police officer said.
Baladuraisamy alerted Podanur police, who rushed to the spot and recovered empty Tydol-100mg wrappers, a syringe, a glass tumbler, glucose packets and six two-wheelers the gang had left behind. “Preliminary inquiry revealed that Siddiq, Asan and Riyas, residents of Podanur and surrounding areas, had bought the pills from other states to get high. They also supplied the pills to youths in the city. A special team has been formed to nab them,” said assistant commissioner of police Cedric Manuel.
Police have registered a case against the men under sections 8 (c), read with 22 (a) and 27 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.