Youngsters Cook New Drug Using Ganja and Two Other Things; Later Hospitalised

Two youngsters who tried to make illegal drug by combining Marijuana (Ganja), Alcohol and Methanol met with a fire accident and hospitalised. The incident happened in one of the serviced apartments provided by OYO in Ayanambakkam near Tiruverkkadu.

Race Raja from Perungudi and his friends namely Rajesh, Gnanavelraja, Vignesh and Mohammed Razaque rented the OYO service apartment on November 7. On the same day evening, three of the friends (Rajesh, Gnanavelraja and Mohammed Razaque) had went out to buy liquor while Vignesh and Race Raja stayed back in the apartment.

Reportedly both of them were cooking new drug over the induction stove provided in the apartment. In between their process, some kind of gas started to occupy the room slowly. At one point Race Raja who was drunk had lit a cigarette that broke out the fire in the room. The fire caught up with Raja's body completely while Vignesh who was standing near the door escaped with slight injuries.

The apartment employees were alerted by the fumes who later rushed to the spot and saved them. Later the injured youngsters were admitted to Kilpauk Government Hospital. Followed by the police complaint made by OYO employees, it was revealed that the youngsters had tried to cook a gel by combining Ganja, Alcohol and Methanol to apply it on top of cigarette and smoke. The Tiruverkadu police officers have filed a case and rolled out further investigation.