Staff Reporter
KALPETTA
A team of excise officials led by inspector A. Prajith arrested a youth and seized 35 grams of MDMA, a psychotropic drug, at the excise check post at Muthanga on the Kerala–Karnataka border on Friday.
The arrested man was identified as Muhammed Basheer, 30, of Kunnathu Veetil at Ponnani in Malappuram district.
The accused was transporting the drug from Mysuru to Malappuram in a KSRTC bus.
Muhammed Basheer would be produced in the First Class Magistrate Court at Sulthan Bathery.
