Are any of your friends a member of this page on Instagram? Around 7000 under observation

ALAPPUZHA: The excise nabbed a youth with MDMA for posting videos and photos promoting the use of drugs through an Instagram community page. The arrested is Sharon Varghese (20) of Vayalar in Alappuzha. He was for a long time under the observation of Alappuzha excise cyber cell.

Excise circle inspector Rejilal and party jointly arrested him from Vayalar with 0.250 grams of MDMA. The community page ‘vada mone parakkam’ has been removed from Instagram. Around 7000 people who were members of this page are under surveillance. Vishnu, a resident of Cherthala, who was one of them, was arrested and remanded by excise a few days ago with commercial quantity of MDMA.

Cherthala excise circle office preventive Officer G Unnikrishnan Nair, civil excise officers Renee M and Naveen B and cyber cell officers B A Anshad and Varghese Payas were in the team.