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The two were wholesale dealers who sold drugs in north Kerala districts, the police found.
The dealers and hospitals who had stocks of the below-said drugs should give it back to the stockists and furnish the details with the department
The accused, Jagan of Mulayam, told the police that he saved the money given to him by his father to buy the air gun from Trichur Gun Bazar.
The duo had been under the radar of the excise department for the last few days.
The fraudsters posed as members of the anti-narcotics cell and claimed to have intercepted a drug parcel.
The accused had been using the tattoo studio as a cover for their narcotics business, said excise official
According to police, the accused were returning from Bengaluru purchasing MDMA and had taken the deviation from Gundelpett in Karnataka
During interrogation, the accused confessed that the drug was being smuggled from Bengaluru to Kannur for selling, said police.
The five-member gang was busted in no time by the Kozhikode Police that recovered the van and stolen goods.
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