Coimbatore: Days after a video of seven youths injecting themselves with painkiller tablets mixed with saline drips to get a high went viral on social media, the four special teams that were formed to crack down on the young drug abusers and their suppliers picked up four of them on Friday and handed them over to the Kuniyamuthur police for questioning.
An investigation officer said the video, which surfaced on social media on Wednesday, was shot a few months ago. As the video went viral, city police commissioner Deepak M Damor had instructed the special teams to nab the youths and identify the source of medicine supplies.