In Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) Pondicherry, an MBBS intern was found selling Ganja on the campus and has been arrested for his illegal activities.
The Puducherry police raided the house of the 35-year-old former JIPMER student at Thilaspet after receiving information about the storage and sale of Ganja in his house. They also found that, along with him, two other medics from JIPMER were selling Ganja to the public and the students in the institute.
The police found 300 grams of Ganja in the house of the former JIPMER medical student. The three persons who were found to be involved in this case from the institute are Akshit Kumar, a 26-year-old MBBS intern from Haryana; B.Divanshu, a 23-year-old final-year medical student from New Delhi; and Pooran Bimal, a 35-year-old former student of JIPMER from Madhya Pradesh.
The intern Akshit Kumar was found residing at Indira Nagar in Pondicherry; the final-year medical student B. Divanshu was found residing in the JIPMER hostel; and the former JIPMER student Pooran Bimal was found living in Thilaspet.
These three medics were arrested based on Section 8(c) of the NDPS Act. According to the act, if anyone cultivates or gathers any portion of a coca, opium, or cannabis plant and manufactures, stores, sells, transports, purchases, or consumes these products, then it is considered an illegal activity.
A similar incident happened two years ago on the same JIPMER campus, where a doctor from the campus named Duraiarasan and a Russian national named Ivan, who resided in Auroville, were arrested after they were found selling Ganja and Ketamine. Dr. Duraisan was found selling ketamine, an anesthetic, in exchange for Ganja. The other people who were involved in that case were Devanathan, Felix, Parthasarathy, a girl from Bengaluru, and a youth from Nettapakkam.
Similarly, in Karnataka, in June of this year, three students (two from Tamil Nadu and one from Kerala) were found farming cannabis plants using advanced farming methods in Shivamogga, Karnataka. The police seized 227 grams of ganja from them.
(Input from various media sources)
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