India News | Doctor Arrested for Drug Peddling in Karnataka

Mangaluru (Karnataka), Jul 12 (PTI) Mangaluru City Police have arrested a doctor in connection with a drug peddling case, making it the ninth arrest in an ongoing investigation into a local narcotics supply network, officials said on Saturday.

City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy identified the accused as Prajwal Peenyas, a native of Mangalapet in Bidar district and currently residing in Kodipalya, Kengeri, Bengaluru.

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He was previously a medical student at a private college in Mangaluru and had three drug-related cases registered at different police stations in the city, he said.

According to police, the latest case was registered on July 2 at the City Central Crime (CEN) police station under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

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Investigations that began with interrogations of local drug users led police to a network of nine individuals allegedly supplying drugs in Mangaluru. All have been arrested and remanded to judicial custody, the senior police officer said.

Police alleged that Peenyas played a key role in sourcing drugs from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and distributing them in the city. He was arrested earlier this week and produced before a court on Thursday, which remanded him to judicial custody.

A mobile phone reportedly used in the drug transactions has also been seized, the Commissioner said.

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