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The probe is centred around the drug operators in Fort Kochi.
The youth is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital.
A three-man gang led by an Excise officer was arrested with drugs, including MDMA from Anchal.
Each candy was sold for Rs 10 in the city and the peddlers mostly target students, said the city police.
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The two youths are accused in the case of abducting Alappuzha native Libin Varghese, accused in a ganja case at Sasthamkotta, and also for demanding ransom.
An Excise Department survey report says that 79% of the youth get drugs through friends and 5% of them get the drugs from members of the family. Also, 38.16% of them had given narcotic substances to friends.
The accused were operating out of a hotel room they had rented under the guise of seeking treatment from a nearby hospital.
The police initiated the drive following a tip-off that OYO rooms, booked online, were being used rampantly for drug deals. “People check into these rooms for just one or two hours for facilitating drug deals. We conducted the raids based on information that hotel rooms were being widely used for drug deals,” the DCP said.
Interrogation reports of the arrested men indicate that a majority of the drug users are school and college students, apart from criminals.