A total of 244 persons were arrested across the State in the Kerala Police’s Operation D-Hunt special drive as part of a crackdown on drug dealers on Saturday.
MDMA, hashish oil, brown sugar and several kilograms of ganja estimated at several lakhs were seized from the arrested persons. Ahead of the drive, the police force had cast a surveillance net on drug dealers and local-level distributor networks, before moving in to nab them.
The maximum number of persons were arrested from Kochi city — 61. The largest quantity of MDMA, 37.41 g, was seized from Kollam city while 22.85 g was seized from Thiruvananthapuram rural.