Manipal: A final year engineering student of Manipal Institute of Technology was arrested after being caught in possession of 488 MDMA tablets worth Rs 15 lakh.
The 20-year-old Yuvanshu Joshi, who hails from Noida, had ordered the drugs through the dark web.
Caught red-handed by Udupi police when he was selling some of the contraband to fellow students, has been suspended by the Manipal institute.
Udupi SP Vishnuvardhan said they were probing the involvement of a drug racket and how they were procured on the dark web.