THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The drug gangs in the capital city are on the move entrapping school-going girl students. The general perception favors girls as they are more vulnerable and can easily acclimatize to jobs as carriers and traders of banned drugs, without calling for any doubt among peers. Shockingly, in just one month's time, three complaints from parents have reached the police, and that too about girls from elite schools in the capital city.

According to findings from excise and police, drug gangs are running big business hubs in many city schools. The gangs mostly lure girls in high school or sometimes as low as 10-year-old girls. This selection process is shrewd. Girls under the tutelage of grandparents or maids, whose parents devote a career abroad are preferred mostly by the gangs.

The synthetic drugs will be first shown to these girls. Talks will be all cordial such that the girls will not feel desolated in the company of these gangs. After taking them into confidence, the girls will be used as carriers by the gang to sell products inside the school premise and outside.

However now, three complaints regarding gang criminals targeting girls are in office. Minding the development, the police are readying moves to come up with an action plan starting in June. Shadow police and special excise officers will be placed on duty in front of city schools in the capital.