The Vijayawada Task Force on Sunday arrested a 5-member gang involved in selling banned drugs to college students.
The Task Force sleuths seized a large quantity of narcotic drugs which were being supplied to the college students in the city. The police confiscated about 13,000 narcotic injections from their possessions.
Sleuths said that the supply of the banned drugs was carried out through a chain of peddlars and suppliers. The narcotic substances were being peddled to students, youths and labourers, in and around Krishna Lanka, Satyanarayanapuram, Priyadarshini Cinema, Sanjeevaiah Colony and Arundalpet areas in Vijaywada.
The Task force officials also added that they are yet to estimate the market value of the seized drugs.