On June 7, 2019, the Kolkata Police arrested eight persons, including three drug dealers, for selling and consuming heroin in the city, a police officer said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Kolkata Police's anti-narcotics cell conducted raids at specific points in the city on Thursday night and arrested five youths with 3.5 grams of heroin from south Kolkata's 75, Sarat Bose Road.

The five accused youths were identified as Raunak Jain (23), Raunak Singh (29), Lakshya Agarwal (24), Saion Banerjee (25) and Arghya Kamal Banerjee (25), all of who were arrested while consuming heroin around 11 pm on Thursday.