India, March 17 -- Three days after police seized nearly 2 kg of ganja from the men's hostel rooms of the Government Polytechnic College at Kalamassery in Ernakulam district, a third-year student, who is the prime accused in the case, was arrested on Sunday, officers aware of the matter said.

Anuraj, a native of Kollam district and a mechanical engineering student at the college, was taken into custody on Saturday and was formally arrested on Sunday after a detailed round of questioning, an officer at the Kalamassery police station, where the FIR was registered, said on condition of anonymity.

"He has been booked under sections of the NDPS Act, 1985 for procuring and planning to distribute ganja among college students on the pretext of ...