New Year drugs crackdown: NCB arrests 4 students of universities in Delhi

New Delhi: In a major crackdown ahead of New Year's Eve, the NCB has arrested four students of the Delhi University, JNU and Amity University for their alleged involvement in a narcotics supply racket here. The agency has also seized 1.14 kg of charas (cannabis) and three LSD (Lysergic acid Diethylamide) blot papers that was supposedly to be supplied to the new year party circuit of students in and around DUs North campus. The Delhi Zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) identified the four, arrested under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), as students of reputed academic institutions of the national capital such as the DU, including one from the Hindu college, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Amity University.

Ahead of New Year's Eve, Narcotics Control Bureau's Delhi Unit arrests two students of Delhi University's Hindu College, one student of JNU & one student of Amity University and seizes 1.140 kg of Cannabis and three LSD blot papers. (ANI) pic.twitter.com/jRNujvik1s

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"Aniruddh Mathur, Tenzin Phunchog and Sam Mallick are all abusers of charas and used to get it from Gaurav. "They have also informed that abuse of drugs is rampant in the Delhi University campus area. They have given information about drug peddlers and others involved in the racket which is further being verified," NCB Deputy Director General (North) S K Jha said. Gaurav, a student of the Hindu college, was named as the kingpin of the racket by the NCB, which added that the charas was being allegedly sourced by these students from Himachal Pradesh.