Two engineering students arrested for possessing narcotics

Two students from Goa Engineering College (GEC) here were arrested today during a raid at the hostel after they were found in possession of banned narcotics substance.
Vishant Gawas, a final year student and Arun Singh Rathod, a first year student, were booked under stringent Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) by Goa police.
A team of Anti-Narcotic Cell and Crime Branch had raided the hostel inside the GEC campus at Farmagudi, 20 kms away from here, near Ponda town.
"The raid was conducted acting upon an information," Superintendent of Police Karthik Kashyap told reporters today.
Both the students were found in the hostel during the raid and narcotics was seized from them. However, the nature of the substance was not revealed, police said.

"The raid is to send a strong message that Goa Police will not tolerate any such nefarious activity in the state more particularly in educational institutions," Kashyap said.