Drug case: Name of bar dancer crops up

Kolkata: Kolkata Police have come to know about the involvement of a bar dancer in the drug peddling racket in connection with which three youth were arrested on Thursday.

Police have also got a few more names, who are involved in the drug peddling racket.

The city police arrested three students of well known private colleges in the city on Thursday.

All the three youth - Soumik Mukherjee, Mriganka Banerjee and Koustav Kar - are being remanded to police custody till July 11 after being produced before a city court on Thursday.

Police suspect that the youth often visited a bar off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and they were in dire need of money.

This need dragged them to the "dark world" of drug peddling and it was the bar dancer, who introduced them to a member of a racket, police suspect.

Police have rigorously interrogated the three youth and the investigating officers have come to know about some more people, who are also involved in the racket.

Sources said police are keeping a watch on the youth, whose names have come up in the investigation.

Police are also maintaining vigil at the places where the arrested youth used to visit.

It is learnt that police have gathered substantial information about the places, where the trio went for quite a number of times in the past two months.

MDMA and LSD blots were recovered from the three youth, who were arrested on Thursday morning.

Mriganka used to buy the same through the dark web. Police suspect that Mriganka is not the only youth, who was responsible for buying the drugs. Hence, police are trying to find out the person, who had actually dragged them into such activities.

Police are probing into all possible angles to ascertain the entire network, through which the drugs reached the students and then got circulated amongst others.

In a bid to uproot the menace completely, it is important to reach the root of the racket, police say.

"Once the main person behind the entire operation is arrested, the flow of such drugs in the racket will get checked," the officer said.

It may be mentioned that in the recent times, the involvement of students in drug peddling rackets, has started coming to light.

Hence, according to a section of police officers, it is essential to create awareness among students so that they do not get addicted to drugs or get involve in any such racket.

Kolkata Police are also creating awareness among people against drugs through social networking sites. At the same time, police also organise campaigns every year.

In another incident, Narcotics Control bureau arrested one Nurabul Khan from Narayanpur in Nadia on charges of smuggling narcotic substances. Around 95 Kg of ganja was seized from his house.