A man has been booked for allegedly selling drugs to another person who was found dead in Balachaur, police said.
Aditya Pathak (18) was found dead in a deserted plot on Tuesday, near here, police said.
A case was registered under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code against the man on a complaint of a maternal uncle of the deceased.
Senior Suprintendent of Police Satinder Singh said similar cases would be registered in all such cases against the sellers or suppliers of drugs where deaths would result following the consumption of such drugs.
The Balachaur Police are yet to nab the man named in the FIR, said Ajay Kumar, Station House Officer Balachaur.