According to police estimates, the teenager had already spend over Rs 50k in two days. During interrogation, he broke down adding that academic pressure had pushed him to run away.

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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has dismantled a mobile mephedrone manufacturing unit in Maharashtra’s Satara district, seized drugs worth Rs 55 crore and arrested five persons, officials said.