Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Sep 15: Under a drive launched by the police, five students of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) and a physiotherapy student had been arrested for drug use. All of them have since secured bail.
Students council president of MIT, Darshan Nandekar, said that a drug awareness rally is being planned in October this year to awaken student community about the dangers of drug use. The rally, in which about a thousand students, officials and those working in the college will take part, will be part of the upcoming inter-collegiate fest, he added.
All the six students had been arrested by the police on Wednesday from their apartment. Cases were registered against them for d rug abuse. Information about widespread drug use had come up during the phone-in programme involving superintendent of police of the district recently.