Pathanamthitta: Police on Saturday arrested 5 individuals, together with a lady, for promoting celebration drug MDMA and intercourse toys from a resort room in Pandalam in Pathanamthitta district. The narcotics had been seized from Riverwalk Hotel, close to Manikandan Althara in Pandalam, on Saturday afternoon by a District Anti-Narcotics Special Action Force (DANSAF) group led by Narcotics Cell Deputy Superintendent of Police Okay A Vidyadharan.

The DANSAF squad recovered 154 grams of MDMA and sexual paraphernalia from the resort room. According to police, this was the largest drug-racket hunt in southern Kerala. The DANSAF group launched the hunt based mostly on a tip-off obtained by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Swapnil Madhukar Mahajan. The arrested are Shahina Pallikal of Kollam, Rahul (Monai) of Adoor, Aryan of Peringanad, Vidhu Krishnan of Pandalam and Sajin of Kodumon. Shahina and Monai apparently booked a room on the resort on Friday night. Some shoppers had reportedly visited them.

Police confirmed that every one the accused are drug sellers and that the MDMA was introduced from Bengaluru. The plan was to smuggle the narcotics to the resort room in Pandalam earlier than sale. The accused stated that Shahina was introduced alongside to keep away from suspicion. MDMA or methyl?enedioxy?methamphetamine is usually generally known as ecstasy or molly.