Police have arrested as many as five students of the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College here who were allegedly consuming liquor and also making nuisance under inebriated condition at a public place in the city, police said on Wednesday.
According to the police, following a tip-off that few youngsters were consuming alcohol and creating nuisance at Telibandha-based Water Point which is one of the crowded places in the city, a police team swung into action and picked them up.
Police have seized liquor bottles from their possession. Preliminary police investigation revealed that they were students of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur. The students picked up by police in this connection were identified as Dr Ajay Bhagat (25), Dr Subodh Singh (26), Dr Rajesh Ramteke (27), Dr Tarun Kothari (25) and Dr Khileshwar Mandle (25), said police, adding that the medicos were creating nuisance at public place under inebriated condition. “They are booked under relevant sections of excise act,” police said adding that further investigation is on.