Names of some engineering college students cropped up among the consumers of ganja, a banned narcotic substance, after the Ibrahimpatnam police of Rachakonda commissionerate busted yet another gang supplying ganja on Wednesday.
While the police have already detained two persons smuggling ganja from neighbouring sates into Hyderabad, action is being contemplated against the college students for purchasing it. This is the second instance of Ibrahimpatnam police busting ganja racket in the past few months.
This is the second time that some students of a private college located on the outskirts of Ibrahimpatnam turned out to be the clients of ganja smugglers. Three students were arrested by the Rachakonda police three months ago on the charge of buying ganja.
“Initiating criminal proceedings against students may ruin their future. It might take several days for them even to secure bail once the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act is invoked against them,” a police officer said.
Police top-brass are mulling involving activists of voluntary organisations to counsel the students.
Counselling planned
In the fresh case, the students whose names were in the list of clients of the ganja smugglers, belong to a private engineering college in Ibrahimpatnam. “Irrespective of initiating penal action, we will summon parents of those students and counsel them,” the police said.
Investigators say that students from different parts of the country were studying in the college.
Along with registration of cases, the Rachakonda police are also planning to organise special awareness programme in all colleges located in Ibrahimpatnam to dissuade students from falling prey to ganja or other narcotic substance smugglers.
