The Pallavaram police have arrested three accused for supplying narcotics to students and others.
Following reports of substance abuse by students of schools and colleges in Tambaram and surrounding areas, Tambaram Police Commissioner A Amalraj constituted a special team and directed it to be monitored.
Seeing the police team, three people created a ruckus. The police team caught them and interrogated them.
As the trio evaded, the police searched their bags and seized 600 tapentadol tablets and 100 syringes from them. The gang was smuggling bullets from Mumbai and illegally supplying them to college students in Tambaram and other suburbs.
Police have identified those arrested as 24-year-old Faisal, 27-year-old Jagarullah and 28-year-old Udayseelan.