COIMBATORE: A 19-year-old college student here was arrested in early wee hours of Thursday for possession of
marijuana
.
The accused has been identified as Prabahkaran A of
Theni
. He is a second year student of bachelors in business administration (
BBA
).
A police officer said, “We stopped three youths riding on a tw0-wheeler on the Coimbatore- Sathyamangalam highway. On inquiries, we found that one of them, Prabhakaran, was in possession of marijuana. We have seized nearly 150g of marijuana from him.”
Prabhakaran is said to be a regular user of marijuana, police said. “He had procured the drug while he visited home during the Ayudha Puja holidays,” police said. He was living in a private hostel near Sankara Hospital.
Police has booked Prabhakaran under sections 20 and 24 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
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