Mangaluru: Sleuths of City Crime Branch of Mangaluru City Police in a special anti-narcotics drive to detect and book youths for using ganja, nabbed seven of them on Tuesday. Based on a tip off that a group of youths were using ganja at a vacant plot near a place of worship at Bajjodi 2nd Cross Road under Kankakandy Town Police Station limits, the CCB sleuths swooped down on the place and apprehended the youths and seized the drugs from them.

The youths, residents of various places across the city were addicted to ganja, T R Suresh, city police chief said in a release on Wednesday. Parents/guardians of the youths were summoned to CCB office and asked to keep an eye on their respective wards and ensure they steered clear from drugs in future. With one youth, a final year degree college student in the city, CCB sleuths summoned the college principal and informed the principal about his activities.

The CCB sleuths handed over the youths to the jurisdictional police station for further action, Suresh said and a case registered against them. The accused include a teenager, and rest in the age-group of 21 to 27-years. While one of them in unemployed, one is a student, other working as store in-charge at a hotel in Mysuru, one has quit his corporate job in Bengaluru, other worked as a holiday consultant in Goa and another an interior-designer and one a drop out.