Summary:
Puram are some of the areas where councillors claim to have found prevalence of drug abuse. Councillors representing various wards expressed concern about a rise in incidents of drug abuse, especially among youth, and sought intervention from the police to curb such incidents. This is thrice the number of such cases registered in the last two years," he said. HelplineResponding to the councillors, DCP (Crime) Ram Nivas Sepat, who was present at the meeting, said the department had recently launched a toll-free number (1908) exclusively for registering drug abuse cases. more-inAn unusual topic took centre stage at the council meeting of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Monday..