Man held with 1 kg of MDMA in Kozhikode

A special squad of the Excise department on Thursday arrested a Wayanad native with 1 kg of MDMA from near the Kozhikode railway station. M. Ismail was reportedly nabbed when he came to the city by Mangala Express with the smuggled synthetic drug from Delhi. Excise sources said the 27-year-old had secured the costly drug from an African citizen after reaching Delhi on June 30. Further investigations would be held to identify local drug pushers associated with Ismail, they said.