Four arrested with recreational pills

Coimbatore: Four men were arrested on Saturday evening for possession of 53 recreational pills.
Police said the youths were selling a pill for Rs 200 while they got a strip of 10 tablets for just Rs 54. “They used to distil the tablet in sterile water and inject them,” a police officer said.
He identified the accused as Mohamed Yasar, 20, Mohamed Mustafa, 30, (both residents of Karumbukadai), Muthu Mohamed, 24 and Mohammed Mustafa, 26 (both residents of Athupalayam). They were booked under Sections 8 (c) read with 22 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The source said Kuniyamuthur police inspector K M Periyar, sub-inspector Ganesh Kumar and team nabbed the four based on a tip. “The pills are prescribed for relief from anxiety and insomnia. The four-member gang had bought the tablets from some people in the city and were selling the same among the youths. While they bought one strip of 10 pills for Rs 54, they were selling it for Rs 2,000.”
Police have formed a special team to nab the people who supplied the tablets to the arrested four, who have been remanded in judicial custody and lodged in jail after producing them for before a judicial magistrate.